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Lester Shapiro left the United States from California. Ninety percent of the men got seasick on the boat. When he left...

John Bradley was born in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Philippines] in May 1936. Bradley's father enlisted in the...

Donelson Houseman got a ten day leave and went home. After reporting back, he was assigned to Fort Fisher, North...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Werner walked out of Austria in August 1938 and made it by train to Geneva, Switzerland.]...

Once they finished gunnery training, Leon Waldman and the men he was training with were put into crews. He was in the...

Anne Levy was in Lodz, Poland in 1939 when the Germans entered the city. Inhabitants thought the men would be arrested...

The war was on and all of the men were being drafted. After the first year, women were allowed to join the military, so...

Robert Villars received his boot camp training in San Diego. He nearly got into trouble for pilfering a lemon pie...

[Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore went into nurse's training. She did not like it. Two of her friends from school were...

On his return to the United States, Frederick Moore and another guy traveled through Saudi Arabia and Khartoum to Accra...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was liberated by Russian soldiers [Annotator's Note: he was a prisoner of war in Stalag III-B...

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