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Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

When the war was over, a lot of women stayed on in the factories. Helen Kushnir went to work for Western Union as a...

Robert Boeke's friends Sergeant Tate [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] and Corporal Gross [Annotator's Note:...

Quintana did not talk about the war much when he got home. He did not talk about it with his kids, however with age he...

[Annotator's Note: After capturing Mainz, Germany,] Vernon Schmidt and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 358th...

Joel Urice was assigned to an apartment with another 100th Bombardment Group member in Germany. He had enough points to...

Lionel Baxter and his unit [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 941st Field Artillery Battalion] went through the outskirts of...

William Pierce hated the Japanese before landing on Okinawa. Propaganda influenced his animosity. His feelings were...

The SS Lurline, on which Virginia Wilterdink was traveling, stopped in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands]...

Going east to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek, or Belzec, Alexander White said, meant going to the gas chambers...

Flournoy believes that World War II changed the world. She also believes that any current war will change the world....

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