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Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

When he landed in Normandy with Battery A, 29th Field Artillery Battalion [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 29th Field...

Most of Nick Cristiano's bombing missions started in the evening. He would call the meal before leaving "the last...

Charles Graves Chauncey was assigned missions to bomb Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan]. On one of those missions...

It was patriotic duty that influenced Aaron Baumgarten to serve in World War 2 and, on a personal level, he felt he had...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Ivan Van der Pool was born and raised in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He had a normal childhood...

Berle Wheeler was company clerk in his outfit [Annotator's Note: 967th Engineer Maintenance Company] when it arrived at...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was in New Caledonia when he received transfer orders from USS Patterson (DD-392) to an oil burning...

Lloyd Burns was on a prisoner march and had gone through the town of Nuremberg [Annotator's Note: Nuremberg, Germany]...

In England, Russell Schuman was assigned to a receiving company tasked with helping to construct a camp for incoming...

Stanley Boyd Nance served with the 11th Armored Division and was selected to be part of a top secret organization...

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