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Robert D. Maxwell was born in October 1920 in western Kansas. With the winds blowing the land away, the family headed...
Felix J. Polito was born in Franklin, Louisiana in 1922. He lived there until he was 19 years old. In January 1942, he...
Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was born in Culloden, Georgia. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine was born in July 1927 in Baguio, Philippines [Annotator's Note: Baguio, Luzon,...
Albert G. Sutcliffe was born 12 May 1925 in Bisbee, Arizona. When he was about two years old his family moved to Los...
Harry Baughman was born in Findlay, Ohio. He grew up there during the Great Depression, when "things were tough." When...
John Moran was born in Superior, Wisconsin. He had a great youth and enlisted in the Army at 17. He was then sent to...
Harold Baumgarten served with the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division during the first wave of attacks on D...
Ralph Griffith was born in March 1923 in Hannibal, Missouri, one of four children. His father was an iron worker with...
Fernando Serna was born in Laredo, Texas in October 1922. He was a senior in high school when the war started. He was...
Donald C. Morrison was part of the 2nd Infantry Division, 38th Infantry Regiment, Company K [Annotator's Note: Company...
Fighting in the Leyte Valley area lasted for two brutal months, and John Smith related the tale of the event that...
Adelaide Benjamin remembers the first Christmas tree the family had out there [Annotator's Note: in El Paso, Texas]....
After the Battle of the Bulge, Joseph Venerloh and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 41st Armored...
[Annotator's Note: William Smith was flying out of Charters Towers, Australia]. They were shipped from Port Moresby to...
During the assault on Manoir La Fiere [Annotators Note: La Fiere Manor] on D Day, Lieutenant John Marr led his advanced...
Edward G. Willette and his division [Annotator's Note: Willette was a mortarman in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 413th...
Kelly Kuwayama was away from his unit for about three weeks before he had to rejoin them. The 44nd was sent back to...
Dave Severance thought they would be sent home once they took the mountain [Annotator's Note: Mount Suribachi on Iwo...
[Annotator's Note: Jack Glass served in the Navy aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) as an aviation radioman in Fighting...
After the Battle of the Bulge, Elmer Knudsen was deployed close to the Rhine River and was billeted in a private...
When the war ended, Thomas Ballew's unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 231st Searchlight Battalion] was in Furth...
Frank Campisano was told he would be in the first wave for the invasion of Japan. He departed for his old camp on...
Florence G. Shutsy-Reynolds' parents always told her she could do anything she wanted to do. That event is why she is...
Berle Wheeler experienced Japanese air raids but slit trenches protected him from the attacks [Annotator's Note: he was...
While on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], Gerry Jones was called over the radio to search for some Japanese...
Roy H. Matsumoto was almost killed at the Myitkyina [Annotator's Note: Myitkyina, Burma; now Myitkyina, Myanmar]...
On his 22nd mission, Herbert Gross bailed out over French Indochina in Japanese territory. It took eight days to walk...
Roger A. Lewis left Wallis Island [Annotator's Note: Wallis and Futuna] and returned first to American Samoa, and then...
Within a few miles of Aparri [Annotator's Note: Aparri, Philippines], Leo V. Strausbaugh met up with Major Connolly [...
Alvin von Frisch departed Hawaii [Annotator's Note: as a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment,...
Claire Maddox went ashore [Annotator's Note: as a member of ACORN-21, after the Battle of Eniwetok, 17 to 23 February...
Harold Ronson went to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, which later became famous for the atomic bomb testing [Annotator's...
Marvin Raymond Edwards enlisted because he felt he would be drafted, and he wanted to select the Air Force. He had...
Oran Harris was 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was returning from Sunday school when a man called out...
Roger A. Lewis was born in March 1920 in Chunchula [Annotator's Note: Chunchula, Alabama]. He was the oldest of eight...

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