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John Shirley was an infantry replacement sergeant. He was stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland. After a three-day leave [...

George Hamilton’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting hit by a 50-foot wave and the ship shuttering....

Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was assigned to the USS Guam (CB-2) as a fireman in June 1944. His crew got along well together...

Luba Keller was born in May 1926 in Szydłowiec, Poland. She attended school there. She had never seen airplanes as it...

Guy Stern had a commanding officer at First Army Headquarters named Major Shepard Stone [Annotator's Note: US Army...

William Hussey feels World War 2 is still relevant today because it was an outstanding example of how the United States...

During the Battle of Midway, Edward E. Boyles spent a lot of his time typing because his superior officer, Lieutenant...

A few days after leaving Australia, the ship 25 miles ahead of Ralph Crump's radioed that it had been under torpedo...

Bryghte Davis Godbold received several Red Cross shipments while incarcerated by the Japanese. The packages were most...

There was ongoing correspondence with people back home, and John Caraway was able to keep abreast of what was going on...

James Sandoz was drafted in 1943. He was at school when Japan invaded [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Once he was back in the United States, Richard Jaccarino traveled by train, dropping off soldiers and train cars all...

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