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Pete Brock's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the surrender of the Japanese in 1945 and when his crew...

Donelson Houseman believes that the magnitude of the German offensive [Annotator's Note: the German Ardennes Offensive...

Henry Quinton Pike was assigned to a gun on the USS Hornet (CV-8) to transport civilians to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

When Richard Duchossois and his unit got up into the Bulge [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Bulge] it was very cold...

Marvin Raymond Edwards and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 856th Bombardment Squadron, 492nd Bombardment Group, 8th Air...

When Edward LaPorta was in North Africa they wore a combat suit. At night they put on heavier clothes because it gets...

Russell Mayeur feels that every male should have mandatory military training. Women are a significant part of today's...

Grace Brown thought the war would end and she would go back to her normal life. She did not think her life changed much...

Thomas D. Thompson was in the Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Lingayen Gulf, Philippines] aboard a PC [Annotator's...

On 27 October 1942, Howard Chandler was on his way to work when he observed more soldiers in town than usual. [...

When the war was over, Lora E. Daniel's job [Annotator's Note: at the Union Carbide Metallurgical Plant in Sheffield,...

Growing up, there were very few jobs for women. Lorene Auld's parents had ambition for her. They were living in a small...

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