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Douglas Harper remembers everyone starting to talk about going home [Annotator's Note: after the war in the Pacific...

Allen Horton was born in 1921 in Middletown, Connecticut, a congregational minister's son. His father's profession...

Perry L. Garten was born in November 1917 in Peculiar, Missouri. He grew up in Missouri and graduated from high school...

Leslie B. Mason, Junior was born in 1926 in Montevideo, Minnesota. He did not stay there long. His father worked as a...

Paul Sparacino thought the explosions were unreal [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5)...

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmember aboard the USS LST-53] did not like the Germans or the Japanese. He still...

Alonzo Emerson was born in April 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The oldest of three children [Annotator's Note: one...

Robert Clifford Pryor [Annotator's Note: with the 92nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Armored Division] saw...

Clarence Strobel believes his service in World War 2 was necessary. He made good friends and realized that he was a...

When Ela Weissberger arrived in Terezin on 12 February 1942, she found it "terrible." She had to walk about four...

George Haines was offered a promotion to sergeant, but he did not want it. He liked being a scout and figured the men...

Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] returned to his unit...

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