European Theater of Operations (ETO)

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After Ed Tunnicliff was discharged, he was recruited by several university football teams. Tunnicliff thought he was...
When Floyd Stahl graduated in 1954, he had trouble finding work. He had taken insurance courses. He got an offer in...
Leon Dixon started his own company after the war. He worked a good while to save up money. He worked at the Kaiser...
After his last trip on a ship, John Scott Campbell got married. They were married for 46 years. Jobs were hard. The...
After the war ended in Europe, being transferred to the Pacific was kind of voluntary. Joseph Alter had made a...
Stephen Ananian says the greatest privilege he has is his role in the 339th Fighter Group Association. [Annotator's...
After the war, Jack Buckner used the G.I. Bill to go to school. His first child was born, and he was having a tough...
In 1976, Adolf Adam's work in a textile company brought him to the United States. He made a contract for three years...
One day, Eva Nathanson's mother received a letter and went away for a few days. Her uncle was a phycologist that ran...
James B. Jones started working for the Graves Registration Program. He went all over Europe looking for dead soldiers...
Gerhard Franzky's home in Leipzig was occupied by the Russians. Having already been to Russia once before, Franzky had...
After he was discharged, Francis Resta attended college to study engineering, but when that didn't make sense to him,...
When her family moved to the French Sector of West Berlin in 1950, Brigitte Rodgers noticed that she no longer had to...
Ernest L. Poulson was sent to Hill Field [Annotator's Note: now Hill Air Force Base, Utah] as the assistant operations...
Earl Flanagan was discharged in 1946 and returned home to his mother and sister. He found it difficult to adjust back...
William Patrick Bonelli was never injured in combat. The closest he got was shrapnel hitting his pilot's chair. He...
After Donald Strait came back to the United States he got married and worked in the Office of Flying Safety in Winston-...
After the conclusion of World War 2, Wilford E. Hastings decided to re-enlist for the Army for one more year and was...
Charlie Lomax was in the Reserves [Annotator's Note: US Naval Reserve] about eight years. That was mostly training one...
After he recovered sufficiently in the hospital, John Witmeyer was sent back to the front lines in January of 1945...
When Philip Sciortino and his ship entered Japanese waters, the sea appeared to be completely mined. An invasion of...
Martin Baranek stopped in Modena, Italy, where he slept on the floor in a former military academy building operated by...
After the war, Christa Schneider's family lived in the British Sector of Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin, Germany]....
John T. "Jack" Race was flying very important people around in a regular line C-47 [Annotator's Note: Douglas C-47...
Through the "Stars and Stripes" [Annotator's Note: American military newspaper] newsletter and other means, Robert Mero...
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis finished schooling in New York [Annotator's Note: at Traphagen School of Fashion in New...
Lloyd Reese had been a prisoner-of-war after his Consolidated B-24 Liberator had been shot down over Ploesti, Romania....
After he was liberated, Anthony Acevedo increased his body weight from 87 pounds to 100 pounds. It took a while for him...
In 1983, George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th Bombardment Squadron, 306th...
When the war in Europe ended and the men of Raymond Mabarac's division [Annotator's Note: Mabarac was a member of...
Julian Gould Brunt returned home from World War 2, was discharged from the Army, and enrolled at Mississippi State...
He has no memory of VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945], but Harold Shook remembered that on...
John Singlaub wanted to be a regular Army officer after the war ended. He immediately applied for the integration of...
Jimmy Doi stayed in the Army until 1949. He had reenlisted as a quartermaster because he did not want to be in the...
Robert Rans was discharged from the US Army Air Forces in 1946. He immediately applied and was accepted at Notre Dame [...
James Jordan was lucky. He married a wonderful girl from Scranton [Annotator's Note: Scranton, Pennsylvania]. She...

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