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Perry Smith wanted to fly fighters. He joined the Air Force and was able to do so. He flew many different fighters...
Harlan Twible returned to the United States in November [Annotator's Note: Novemebr 1945]. He remained in the service...
Mildred Aupied worked on three Liberty ships at Delta [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...
John Elliott left the Pacific with seven of his crew and some extra personnel, flying from Tinian to Kwajalein to...
Andrew Kiniry and his unit [Annotator's Note: 45th Evacuation Hospital] was stationed outside of Weimar at Hohra. The...
Guy Leefe, Jr. accumulated about 4,000 hours of flight time during his time in the service. He was discharged in...
Archie Maltbie flew one of his last missions of the war against a very large German ammunition dump. There was a huge...
Harry Carlson feels his most eventful missions were the nighttime missions over Japan. They were frightening at times...
Winfield Zerphey and the airplane's crew were granted liberty after flying several missions. He and a few other men...
The Army was in charge of the Fiji station where Ted Wiebe's group was being held, and although they clothed and fed...
John Singlaub was called to Washington to meet with President Jimmy Carter. He was not sure if he was being disciplined...
Richard Lockhart was discharged at Camp Atterbury in December 1945 after a 60 day leave at home. He had been prepared...
Edwin Knight knows that Americans fought for a good purpose during World War 2. The enemy could have won and we would...
Frank Fontana and his battalion [Annotator's Note: 93rd Medical Gas Treatment Battalion] had to turn in all their...
Cyril Buchert saw the Japanese envoys coming into the surrender program [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo Bay on 2 September...
Two days after the surrender [Annotator's Note: the formal Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945], C....
William Winter had no inclination to stay in the Army after the war. He was fortunate to have come through the war...
Billy Michal's paternal grandfather worked his way up the ladder in the local lumber business [Annotator's Note: in...
Chester Biernacki returned to the United States and had two companies assigned to him. He then volunteered to go to the...
James Marks was on a carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-18)] that went up through Japan and China with the...
After the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or Ardennes Counteroffensive, 16 December 1944 to...
Morton Brooks was hospitalized and debriefed in England, and was in the U.K. when victory in Europe was declared. He...
When Jack Beverstein returned home, the point system existed. [Annotator's Note: Following the end of the war, military...
George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were anchored too far away from the surrender ceremony to be...
Following POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] debriefing in Yokohama, Japan, John S. Johnson boarded a medical ship...
Following the surrender of Germany, Robert Gorman and the 557th Field Artillery Battalion was assigned to occupation...
John Raaen returned to the United States for recovery in early February [Annotator’s Note: February 1945] after being...
After fighting through France, Luxembourg, and Germany [Annotator's Note: as a member of Cannon Company, 121st Infantry...
William Rupp used the G.I. Bill to attend Tulane University. He used the benefits to aid him in business and also to...
Fred Bronfin was sent back [Annotator's Note: back to the United States] for more radar training and teaching at Saint...
The USS Denver (CL-58) was at Okinawa, Japan at the end of the war to protect the hospital ships. Thomas Tizzard...
Antoinette Underwood and the hospital staff [Annotator's Note: of the 129th General Hospital] knew an invasion was...