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Charles R. Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois in June 1924. His father was a window washer. His mother was a housewife...

Glen Jostad bailed out of his damaged Boeing B-17 heavy bomber and had a German fighter pass twice around him with the...

Elizabeth Bedson Wehner went to Purdue [Annotator's Note: Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana]. She had to...

When Ted Wiebe remembers the Battle of the Coral Sea he thinks of it as just another duty station. He did what he was...

Sterling Mace and his platoon rode to the assault beach at Peleliu in an Amtrak [Annotator's Note: Landing Vehicle,...

Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...

Herman Pbert returned to his village [Annotator's Note: Piedicavallo, Italy, after escaping from a Nazi prison camp in...

Lyle Mitchell wanted to stay working for the Navy after the war, but they cut his pay. He went back to Rochester [...

James Marks had been present at Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands for atomic bomb tests. About two months later, he was...

Arriving on the island of Tinian, Jones and his crew are immediately told to fuel and arm their plane in preparation...

After going through the African Campaign [Annotator's Note: Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa, 8 to...

Edward F. Kent and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 602nd Field Artillery Battalion (Pack)] were outside of Rome [Annotator’...

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