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After he was discharged, Thomas Tizzard looked for a job. He worked in New Orleans, Louisiana as a conductor on a...

Richard Miralles left the squadron and went aboard the ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75)] as a radioman...

Sam S. McKeel served in the Navy as a fire director controlman on the forward twin 40mm Bofors guns [Annotator's Note:...

Norris Bucksell was in Italy during World War 2 as a litter-bearer in the 370th Regimental Combat Team, 92nd Infantry...

Reneau Breard served with the 504th Parachute Infantry [Annotator’s Note: 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

Norris Gwin was based on Midway Island in early January 1944. His squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing...

Carl Beck had been wounded in Bastogne, Belgium and laid on a stretcher all night. He made it back to his outfit [...

Fernando Serna had several close calls during the war. Assigned to Corregidor Island in the Philippines, he got out of...

James McDermott says that the Germans did not treat them badly. If you were taken by the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note:...

Robert D. Maxwell was born in October 1920 in western Kansas. With the winds blowing the land away, the family headed...

The Germans who marched into Riga [Annotator’s Note: Riga, Latvia] were viewed as liberators by the townspeople. When...

Jack Rolfson saw shellshock [Annotator's Note: also known as post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD] in some of the...

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