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Robert Fisch continued to have food consumption as a first priority following his father's reinterment. [Annotator's...
Jack Barnes returned to the United States for 30 days after he left Europe following Germany's surrender. Following his...
Joseph Daquarna sailed the small submarine tender USS Greenlet (ASR-10) to China and then to the West Coast where he...
Billy Michal enlisted during the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis while many of his friends were drafted. Some fellow...
Dale Peterson had no problem transitioning back to civilian life after his discharge. His most memorable experience was...
Dracos Burke said he always wanted to be in the military, war or no war. Beginning when he was 17, he participated...
Dabney Montgomery remembers the night that Mount Vesuvius erupted [Annotator’s Note: he was serving with the Tuskegee...
Jack Carver thinks the youth of today have no idea of the type of war the Second World War was. The movie is good [...
Alton Barnes remembers being posted on guard duty during a rainy night in the Philippines as a green soldier. In the...
Olin Tisdale had a brother in the Army and a cousin in the Air Force at the same time he was in the military, but the...
Martin Sklar feels his legacy with Disney is that he hired and trained many of the key people in the current...
Dawn Higgins Murphy feels that her father [Annotator's Note: Murphy was the daughter of Andrew Jackson Higgins, the...
His most memorable experience of the war was when Otis Gatewood was shot and captured. There was a time when he wasn't...
Mary Edwards saw the world change dramatically as a result of World War 2. It was important to all the nations of the...
John LeBure was always a responsible person even before the war. He had to work to bring home money to support his...
Anthony Varuso has visited The National WWII Museum and finds it a wonderful place to educate the populace about the...
Warren Schmitt had negative feelings about the Japanese before and during the war. The kamikazes had no respect for...
Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] felt the war was necessary in order to get rid of the Axis leaders. Miksa...
Clarence Schilperoot feels World War 2 should continue to be studied. Many of his memories are personal. They are the...
Glen Jostad saw a major impact on the civilian population as a result of the war. Everyone was together in the war...
Charles Harrison said that the war, and especially the tough things that he went through, made him more thankful for...
Constance Negrotto saw a lot during the war that she had never expected to see. She helped the war effort by working...
Lucy Elliot survived Katrina [Annotator's Note: Hurricane Katrina] in 2005 and then went to live with her niece. They...
Had he not joined the Marine Corps, H. Lloyd Wilkerson might have become a journalist. He has lately embarked on a book...
William Rupp felt there were no particularly memorable experiences during World War 2 for him. He showed up and did his...
Ed Rendelman found that just surviving the war was the best experience he had in the combat. Seeing those wounded...