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On the big merchant ships, Clifton Trahan was a fireman and water tender [Annotator's Note: Trahan worked in the engine...

After the Germans surrendered, the units moved back gradually. Anton Jaber thinks he went through every one of the...

Joseph DeMott was born in August 1918 in Big Run, Pennsylvania. He was the only child of a railroad worker and a...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...

While he was stationed at Camp Maui, situated on an extinct volcano, Steve McMurray said some of the units trained on...

On 7 December 1941, Walter Douglas recalled that he was sitting in an apartment in Washington D.C. listening to the...

In closing, Maurice Hackler declared that he fought in World War 2 in order to become a pilot. He intended to use that...

Harry Boughman's division [Annotator's Note: 88th Infantry Division] was about eight miles south of Bologna, Italy,...

Melvin Linkous and his company [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division] were...

After the war ended, Virginia Wilterdink had enough of the island climate, and elected to work on the hospital ship USS...

James W. Phillips went back to working at a show factory after World War 2, and then later worked in civil service....

[Annotator's Note: Joel Varner went on active duty in the Army Air Corps in February 1943.] Varner joined the Army Air...

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