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Boot camp was mostly about discipline for Angelo Ciotta. They instill that you are not there for yourself but for the...

Walter Trauner went through a line and was told he would be in the Army. He wanted to fly. Basic training was on tank...

Gail Halvorsen thought the Berlin Airlift [Annotator's Note: the Western Allies' operation to supply the blockaded city...

Edward J. Manzi’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was seeing a lot of dead bodies. He fought because he was...

John Kerner was still in Normandy, when he was told of injured civilians nearby. He took a jeep and some men and went...

Clyde Barber was a member of Patrol Squadron 11 (VP-11) which flew PBYs [Annotator’s Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina]...

Elizabeth Goldstein and her sister [Annotator's Note: Ibolya] were transferred back to the Auschwitz concentration camp...

John Cassidy served as an aide to an admiral during his tenure in the Pacific, and the two men got along well. Cassidy...

Tsuyin Soong went back to school after the war. The large cities in China recovered pretty quickly. He went to school...

Richard Yavenue was with the 2nd Marine Division on Saipan [Annotator's Note: in the Northern Mariana Islands]. After...

Gerard Dillon learned from working with General Howell [Annotator's Note: US Army Brigadier General George P. Howell]...

Frank Dominic Lanzetta was transferred to the USS Achernar (AKA-53). While serving aboard the Achernar, Lanzetta took...

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