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After boot camp, Norman Elliott was assigned to a newly-commissioned ship, the USS Pasadena (CL-65). From the Boston...
[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator. He reported aboard the battleship USS...
Arthur Fishman's bunk [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Robinson (DD-562)] was near the engine room below deck. He...
Murphy Burke continued his training while he waited for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Yarnell (DD-541)] to be...
Earl Dean Browning had no problems becoming a civilian. You have to make up your mind. His was that he was going to go...
By Christmas of 1943, Richard Notebaert was home. His new baby was four months old, and his little family spent two...
[Annotator's Note: Norman Kinsey worked with military intelligence units in World War 2.] He never processed anything...
James McDermott does not think the Japanese surrender affected him as much as the war in Europe ending did because he...
[Annotator's Note: Rosemary Ramsey learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941 from her...
Donald Scholle was responsible on his submarine [Annotator's Note: USS Spadefish (SS-411)] for manning the conning...
Lloyd Dendy was the company bootlegger on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau]. They made a still out of aluminum...
Frank Purvis had never been to sea before. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Snowden (DE-246)] was commissioned with a...
In late October 1944, Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. was sent to Naples, Italy by ship. The voyage took almost two weeks....
David Verlander said he couldn't really say what he did most of his days on Guadalcanal, although he can still picture...
Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine captured by the Japanese at Guam, Mariana Islands] and his fellow...
Edgar De Pue Osgood was on anti-submarine and escort duty [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Patrol Bombing Squadron...
Paul Hissey was a replacement pilot for the squadron [Annotator's Note: 429th Fighter Squadron, 474th Fighter Group,...
Irwin Stovroff reminds people that freedom is not free. The volunteers in the military who serve today often have to...
Francis J. Cook remembers the Germans treating GIs harshly in the camps. Food was sparse. He lost about 60 pounds in...
Melvin Baker was concerned that his family would not know his status after he was captured. Later, he was allowed to...
Wim de Jonge's Japanese captors disrespected the POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. Prisoners would be beaten...
Ben Steele was on a detail when he passed out on the side of the road, stricken with malaria. When he was finally able...
At Stalag XII-A [Annotator's Note: in Limburg, Germany], Raymond VanDuzer and the other prisoners were assigned to...
William White Brainard [Annotator's Note: who was serving as a radioman on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber...
Randall Edwards likened the old Chinese army camp where he was held prisoner to a group of American-style hog houses....
Joseph DeMott worked in the farming fields, dug trenches, and built fences as a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: in...
Richard Henry Hamilton describes the Stalag Luft IV Prison Camp [Annotator's Note: Gross Tychow, Pomerania, now Tychowo...
Prison life became routine and food was scarce for Donald Scott. He had been imprisoned after his B-17 Flying Fortress...
Don Tallon [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war in Stalag II-B in Hammerstein, Pomerania, now Czarne, Poland, in...
William Splichal was right in the war room. It was full of bright lights. There were maps all over the wall. They had...
On 26 March 1945, Fiske Hanley II [Annotator's Note: with the 504th Bombardment Group, 313th Bombardment Wing, 20th Air...
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: was an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] was an...
Judith Altmann's life in Auschwitz started at 6:30 every morning. It could be very cold, especially when one's only...
Ivan Bodis-Wollner does not remember arriving at Bergen-Belsen [Annotator's Note: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near...
For food, John Bradley and the internees [Annotator's Note: in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment...
It took five and a half days for James Bollich to reach Camp O'Donnell [Annotator's Note: American instillation used as...

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