Life in the Field/aboard ship

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Herbert Fontenot joined the Navy because it was the only branch that would accept him at 16 years of age. He loved his...
M. Edward Melton thought the end of the war was simple. They were fighting old men instead of young men. They liberated...
Gerald Wayne Lux joined the service to give the Japanese what they had coming to them after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...
Eugene Dorsey’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when a German POW [Annotator’s Note: prisoner of war] fell...
A few weeks after the battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Midway, 4 to 6 June 1942], Leon Williamson returned to Ewa [...
Garland Virgil Longhoffer did have contact with civilians. During mopping up [Annotator's Note: cleaning up missions]...
Chester L. Talley does not believe that World War 2 changed him in any way. He did not suffer from nightmares. He...
World War 2 made Whayland Harvel Greene appreciate food, water, and shelter. He had no food for five days during his...
Paul Roach went away to war as a boy and came back as a man. He did not have any outstanding experiences. He had a nice...
Richard Tangradi’s missions lasted about eight hours [Annotator’s Note: while serving with the 349th Bombardment...
Robert Wolff was given a new plane in Kearney [Annotator’s Note: Kearney, Nebraska], and from there they went to Maine...
Delbert Wombacher was in Reims [Annotator's Note: Reims, France]. A call came out from headquarters, who knew they had...
Because of the discrimination in the Army caste system, Francis Resta said he came to really hate the Army. But when...
[Annotator's Note: Maud Dahme and her sister were reunited with their parents in April 1945 after hiding from the Nazis...
Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...
Lester Shapiro was in a combat engineering outfit [Annotator's Note: 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] and was the first...
Until 1945, Eric Kahn's family stayed together in Wiesbaden, Germany, often taking refuge in cellars during air raids....
After the Battle of Midway [Annotator's Note: Midway Atoll; 4 to 7 June 1942], Victor Yost was brought back to Pearl...
As an adult decades later, there was a disaster in the Atlantic with the Andrea Doria [Annotator's Note: the SS Andrea...
Raymond Mason remembers Bruce Clark [Annotator’s Note: US Army Brigadier General Bruce Cooper Clark] who became their...
William Howard and his crew got together every two years after the war. Their copilot, Kennedy, lives in Boston [...
Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...
Earl Forstall went overseas in a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber]. They went on quite...
The LST-700 [Annotator's Note: USS LST-700] eventually made it back to the Philippines. Carey Suratt needed repair...
While Richard Bennett was in New Orleans, he met a local in a tavern who offered him and a buddy dinner and lodging for...
Bennett Sparks noted that he did a temporary stint very late in the war at the Marine Air Base in Cherry Point, North...
Donald Witmer didn't know what his fate would be. He thought he was drifting toward the beach, one that was held by the...
[Annotator's Note: William Smith was shot down while attacking Kavieng, New Ireland, New Guinea. He was rescued and...
James Wilson recuperated and was taken to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Guadalcanal...
Lloyd Dendy went to the Russell Islands [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. Pavuvu and Mbanika were coconut...
Joseph L. Harrison and his unit [Annotator's Note: the 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] went back to...
George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group...
After 13 months in occupied Japan, Clark Wackerman was able to return home. The return home was much worse than the...
Stewart Hihn [Annotator's Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] was transferred from the 42nd...
After the war ended, Virginia Wilterdink had enough of the island climate, and elected to work on the hospital ship USS...

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