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Frederick Freeman did not return home until January [Annotator's Note: of 1946]. His brother had arrived back home a...
Louis J. Armentaro did not participate in the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953],...
Joseph Geary returned to the United States in June 1945. It was great to come home. He left a few letters for his...
Walter Trauner remembers the people were nice. They were taken over by the Nazis. He had cousins who were in the German...
After finishing 31 missions, James "Jim" Marshall laid around, went to the PX [Annotator's Note: post exchange], played...
Louis Hutchinson was discharged from the Navy on 16 April 1946, in Bainbridge [Annotator's Note: Bainbridge, Maryland...
After being approved to go home [Annotator’s Note: following liberation from a prisoner of war camp in Germany], Olin...
Alois Kopp and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] left Saigon on a boozy flight to Calcutta. The POWs...
Francis Dymnicki boarded a ship in England right after V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] to...
Joyce Sherman left the service and got married. She does not think she was really any different due to the war. Maybe...
Lester Shapiro could have stayed in the service and been a Warrant Officer. He was discharged at Fort Dix [Annotator's...
When Mason Dorsey was returning to the United States, he says that if they would have said they were returning to...
Joseph P. Fulco returned to New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York], where he entered a hospital before being...
Odell Vaughn's reunion with his wife and new child was great. His boy was 21 months old when Vaughn first saw him....
After the war ended, William Edwin Howard started a newspaper. He was sent to Darmstadt, Germany for a long time. He...
Frank Biondo was not doing much after the war was over. He took a furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for...
James William Grimes kept in touch with his family by writing letters occasionally. He had a girlfriend in high school...
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis [Annotator's Note: a Private in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the...
Eventually, Gilbert S. Shawn was brought to the American lines [Annotator's Note: by the Belgian Resistance or...
Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...
After graduating from Officer Candidate School, Benjamin Albert Glusing became a second lieutenant and was given orders...
Roy Stewart thinks about Iwo Jima every day [Annotator's Note: he was with the 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...
During one of his breaks in Sicily, Frank Mancuso wrote a letter that was never answered. When he came back to the...
Kenneth R. Williams’ [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...
John Koenigsberg was picked up by the underground and his parents did not know where he was. After the war, his parents...
Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce was asked by John [Annotator's Note: she had met John Joyce when he was on occupation duty in...
Ejnar Christiansen spent the summer of 1940 in Jacksonville, Florida as a cadet on the Danish Merchant Marine training...
Robert "Bob" Rickel went on a mission to Anklam [Annotator's Note: Anklam, Germany with the 524th Bombardment Squadron...
James Livaudais remembers some of the men in his company who were not exactly the best soldiers. One was named James...
Malcolm Johnson was a civilian contractor working on Wilkes Island when the Japanese attacked Wake Island. He...
For Clyde Barber’s second deployment, he returned to Patrol Squadron 11 (VP-11) stationed at Kaneohe Bay Naval Air...
[Annotator's Note: Leslie Cruise continuously refers to a book that he has on his lap.] Leslie Cruise remarks that...
In Warrenpoint, Ireland, Holly Reynolds always had more than one date. Reynolds saw a show in Washington DC called Back...
Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...
They [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] let some of the Red Cross packages go to pot. They would put them in store house...
James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...

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