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When Marvin Martin heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

Frank Curtis McBride enlisted in the Air Force because he wanted to fly. With an abundance of applicants for flight...

In 1944, Leander Bubrig enlisted in the Army and was sent to Camp Beauregard, Louisiana for induction. His hair was cut...

His most memorable experience of the war was when Otis Gatewood was shot and captured. There was a time when he wasn't...

Henry Heim was not bothered by the transition of the Army Air Corps. He fought in other countries because his country...

Ralph Boyer served as a bombardier with the 560th Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force at...

John Langston Harrison, Jr. experienced racial prejudice throughout all of his 23 years in the service. A weaker man...

Because he had been in the ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps], and he liked close order drill,...

Elizabeth Goldstein was born in March 1926 in Kisar, Hungary. She was the second oldest of eight children. She and her...

After the clean-up of Pearl Harbor, John Cassidy chose to stay in the Pacific on the USS Vincennes (CA-44) which...

Tsuyin Soong was born in January 1933 in Hunan Province, China. He has two brothers and two sisters. He remembers the...

Richard Yavenue was born in July 1925 in Harvey, Illinois. He had three sisters. His dad was a laborer and died when...

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