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Joyce Sherman formed some close friendships and they kept in touch. Most were from Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: like...
Gerry Jones recalls that the Japanese would push the Okinawan [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] natives through the...
John Ream gives his account of Huey Newton [Annotator’s Note: the Black Panther Party leader and founder]. The Panthers...
In the whole time James Buckley was on duty in the Pacific [Annotator's Note: as Deck Officer on the USS LST-1013], he...
George A. Sarosi was a freshman in medical school at the commencement of the Hungarian Revolution [Annotator's Note:...
All that Robert S. Rugeley and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 285th Signal Pigeon Company] knew was that racing pigeons...
Alfred Anthony Alvarez became a lawyer after the war. In Vietnam [Annotator's Note: Vietnam War, or Second Indochina...
As a result of the Wannsee Conference, deportation of Jews began in early in 1942 and Eric Kahn's school was closed....
Lloyd Guillory made one flight against Rabaul. Rabaul was a Japanese airfield that was a very hot spot. It was bypassed...
Anne Levy and her family were required to have good health in order to immigrate to the United States. Her mother and...
Joseph Vater did not know what would happen to him after he had to surrender. He felt helpless and stuck. He knew...
Communications for John W. Towle and his new French host family was difficult. With the help of a French to English...
The first night William Fili was in the prison camp [Annotator's Note: in Bucharest, Romania], the British came over...
[Annotator's Note: William Fili, his tail gunner, and radio operator were all captured and placed in a village jail...
Frederick Amore was transferred to Payne Field in Cairo, Egypt and, because there were too many mechanics there, he did...
Joseph McGuire was sent to India in 1943. The British controlled everything in India, so he had to get permission from...
[Annotator's Note: Clarence Becker went to India as a photo reconnaissance pilot.] India was damp and humid, but very...
Robert Fisch witnessed in the camps an older man talking to the younger people. He personally did not "give a damn"...
When Herbert Stern and his unit were on the way down from the north of Germany, the rubble in Frankfurt, Germany was...
Robert Lewter was inducted in Georgia. From there he got on a train to Camp Polk, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: now Fort...
Charles Murray captured about ten German soldiers then continued on, allowing his men to collect the prisoners [...
Richmond Hamilton characterizes his aviation training as very thorough and shares a pair of anecdotes illustrating this...
From Morocco, Paul Carter was shipped to Sicily where he was assigned to Company K, 179th Infantry Battalion, 45th...
Wendell Galbraith landed in a yard that was like an apple orchard [Annotator's Note: after being shot down on 22 March...
Henry Muller was with the 11th Airborne Division, Eighth US Army, that liberated the Japanese internment camp at Los...
Alfred Dearman says that in the book [Annotator's Note: Dearman is referring to a scrapbook he has, as well as to "...
While in Manila, Wim de Jonge was ordered to return to the Dutch Army to fight an uprising in the Dutch East Indies....
John Geiger was security for the officer while on missions. They took the officer wherever he wanted to go. Every...
Lloyd Geist learned the art of bartering by trading a fifth of whiskey for a BMW [Annotator's Note: Bayerische Motoren...
The people from one of the camps [Annotator's Note: he is referring to concentration camps]. They looked like ghosts in...
Lionel Baxter and his unit [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 941st Field Artillery Battalion] went through the outskirts of...
Robert Jagers probably made 25 to 30 trips across the Channel [Annotator's Note: the English Channel aboard the USS LST...
James Billingsley was on patrol one night in Japan. He went into a train station and there was nothing there, but kids...
Michael Clancey was initially wary of the Vietnamese population, because he did not know who was working with the enemy...
Shigemitsu [Annotator's Note: Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese diplomat and politician] and Alfred Dearman interacted quite...
The first glimpse Aaron Baumgarten had of Alaska was from the air, and he was impressed with its pristine vastness....

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