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Louis Smith recalled that he was inducted 26 February 1943, wounded on Iwo Jima 26 February 1945, and quit smoking...

Meade Willis first experienced battle at Saint-Die [Annotator's Note: Saint-Dié, France]. Willis was tasked with...

Lawrence John Lejeune was a Merchant Marine sailor on a liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced...

Thomas Ard Sylvest enlisted in the Army Air Forces and began his training at Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi. He...

Leo William Schmittgens waited sometime before his ship had arrived for them to leave Okinawa. He helped load the ship...

Clarence Derrington recounts meeting an individual in a stalag [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war camp] that was from...

Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...

William Burrus was only 20 years old when he returned from the war. You have to do what you do, and it is all you can...

In Charlotte, North Carolina, Harold Shook was "just a junior birdman," and at the start of his time there witnessed a...

The fact that John McGlohon is one of the living eye witnesses to the first atomic explosion, and that he was on site...

Murray Stein believes that America is the best place to live in the world. He speaks to students regularly about...

Frank Campisano was eager to do his part. He was told he would be put wherever the Marine Corps needed him, which was...

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