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Cleveland Peterson's most memorable experience was being close to Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. During the...

Madeleine Peters discovered going to the store without having to stand in lines was one of the first noticeable changes...

Richard Boyd returned to his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion] and was sent...

Rothacker Smith suffered from pains in his foot. In the Army, they would play with the explosives out of hand grenades...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. drove his truck to multiple locations on Wake Island in support of the defenders. The huge...

Harold Whitaker does not believe that the story of the veterans of World War 2 has not really been told. He also...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. was assigned to the USS Tippecanoe (AO-21) tanker. Most individuals were wary of serving on...

Getting into Bergen-Belsen [Annotator's Note: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Bergen, Germany] was the worst...

[Annotator's Note: Leslie Cruise continually refers to a book that he has off camera.] During the Battle of the Bulge [...

Dr. John Julien Zingheim does not think the war changed him. He was not bitter about being forced to go to war. The...

Richard Tempus Dixon was assigned to the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop YR-69, in...

Robert Whitcomb was put in a compound with Polish prisoners who had been there for six years [Annotator's Note: at...

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