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Andrew Kiniry rejoined his unit [Annotator's Note: 45th Evacuation Hospital] at Eupen, Belgium near the German border....
Chafer Honea was on his way to Nuremberg, Germany with C Battery, 433rd Antiaircraft Battalion, 939th Field Artillery...
Frank Patti's unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 333rd Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division]...
William McCool left Ohrdruf, Germany and its concentration camp bound for Dresden, Leipzig, and then Zwickau on the...
Samuel Malta and his company [Annotator's Note: Anti-Tank Company, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division]...
Jack Carver had some rotten adventures during the war. There were two particularly bad ones. As he approached a...
Sometime after the war, Philip Dunford spent time in Australia as a minister. He went to the capitol where he saw the...
Philip Dunford received mail very infrequently. On Peleliu he was making plans to go to Maxton, North Carolina to a...
John Laborde was assigned to General MacArthur's [Annotator's Note: US Army General Douglas MacArthur] advance echelon...
Frank Hartzell and his battalion [Annotator's Note: Hartzell was a member of Company B, 21st Armored Infantry Battalion...
Herbert Stern and the 333rd Regimental Combat Team, consisting of the 333rd Infantry Regiment and the 325th Field...
Donald Wilson spent time in Tsingtao, China. Living conditions and the local population were very different for him. He...
Alton Barnes and the 158th Regimental Combat Team, 158th RCT, left the Philippines in September [Annotator's Note:...
Jack Gutman said that because there were so many, the wounded were taken off Okinawa and brought back to various ships...
Bruner's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Coghlan (DD-606)] returned briefly to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before setting out for...
Oran Harris said that while he was on Palawan, he learned that Franklin D. Roosevelt had died, and the news made him...
At the conclusion of World War 2, Kenneth Beckman stayed in the Air Force and eventually wound up in Japan with his...
After two months in Shanghai, Carl Caffarel made the rounds of ports in Japan. He did a bit of exploring, but...
Henry Malec did not have sufficient points to return home immediately after the war ended. He was subject to being...
John LeBure knew that work was being reduced so he left the company [Annotator's Note: Higgins Industries in New...
In August 1946, Gerald Abbenhaus separated from the U.S. Army at Fort Sheridan, Illinois as a first lieutenant. He...
On 23 February [Annotator's Note: 23 February 1945] they were out [Annotator's Note: of the Los Baños internment camp...
The USS Denver (CL-58) was at Okinawa, Japan at the end of the war to protect the hospital ships. Thomas Tizzard...
Henry Malec was atop a hill when the war ended. He was with several other men and Lieutenant Lewis [Annotator's Note:...