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Milton L. McMullen, Sr. and other men were crammed into a ship heading to Japan [Annotator's Note: as a Japanese...
Charles Dragich was on a “hell ship” [Annotator’s Note: unmarked Japanese ships used to transport Allied prisoners of...
Bruno S. Rinas believes some of his unit [Annotator's Note: 3rd Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group] may have been on...
Jack Taylor found the Japanese could not hold up to the F6F fighters [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter...
Lorraine Achee feels that the war helped the country out of the Great Depression. People were working in factories and...
Lorraine Achee could not believe the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and she did not really understand it. They had...
Part of Martha Cohn's family successfully crossed from occupied France into unoccupied France from Saint-Secondin,...
Jack Davis and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company D, 1st Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division]...
[Annotator's Note: Charles Radford served in the Army as an infantryman in Company I, 3rd Battalion, 133rd Infantry...
Bruce LaRose [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in North Africa] had to...
Most of the combat they [Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson and his fellow Marines of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 7th...
Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] did not get to see...
[Annotators Note: Franklin Denius was an artillery forward observer in Battery C, 230th Field Artillery Battalion, 30th...
Warren Nolan was part of Task Force 58 when they were making carrier raids south of Japan in preparation for the...
Karl Friedrich "Charley” König [Annotator's Note: or Koenig] went from Annaburg Annotator's Note: Annaburg, Germany] to...
At the time, Gerhard Franzky thought Hitler was a great man. Franzky's father got another job and was later able to...
A lot of men are killed because of carelessness. You get tired of lying in a hole. A cook got drunk and was then sent...
Nicholas J. Zuras obtained binoculars in Weymouth [Annotator's Note: Weymouth, England]. The wooden decks of the boats...
When his company [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 263rd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division] got to...
After the 82nd Airborne Division finished combat operations in Normandy, Clinton Riddle and the men of the 325th Glider...
Raymond Burchell returned to England [Annotator’s Note: from combat in France]. They were brought to an airfield and...
James Livaudais flew from England to Holland on 17 September 1944. Flying at about 500 feet at 150 miles per hour,...
Ray League never heard about the Holocaust prior to entering the Army. He did not want to know, but the Germans knew....
Howard Chandler continues to feel the personal effects of the Holocaust. He learned to be kind and helpful to less...
Jack Carver had some rotten adventures during the war. There were two particularly bad ones. As he approached a...
[Annotator's Note: Bud Loring was in London, England after being rescued in France.] Loring was asked where he wanted...
Robert Philips came home, took advantage of the G.I. Bill and went to the University of Oregon [Annotator's Note: in...
Coming home from Japan was a joyous time for Don Daniels. His brother was already out of the service. They tried to get...
Peter Somogyi returned to his hometown and met his mother's cousin, Mickey, and some other male survivors [Annotator's...
The only help Fiske Hanley remembers getting from the Red Cross while he was overseas was the loan of two books when he...
James Wilson's good friend John Oliveri [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Sergeant John James Oliveri] was intelligent...
Skip Muck [Annotator's Note: Sergeant Warren H. "Skip" Muck] and Alex Penkala [Annotator's Note: Private First Class...
Emory Maurice Ornelles [Annotator's Note: in the 90th Infantry Division] was working with tanks when a driver asked him...
It was not Henry Armstrong's first time in combat [Annotator's Note: when his Battery B, 607th Field Artillery...
David S. Wisnia was born in August 1926 in the suburb Sochaczew, outside of Warsaw, Poland. His father was a carpenter...
John Kerner was still in Normandy, when he was told of injured civilians nearby. He took a jeep and some men and went...

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