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Asked how the war changed his life, William Hendren said he might not otherwise have met his wife. While driving her...

Lowell Hughes first encountered Germans in Sicily, Italy. He never had any face to face contact with them but he dealt...

Samson Alexander was born in July 1930 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He grew up in Gert Town [Annotator's Note: a...

John Bellecci boarded a ship from California to Australia. The ship went alone in September 1943. It was a converted...

Lester Hecht says there a couple of stories he cannot tell. [Annotator's Note: Hecht laughs.] When his ship pulled into...

Remembering a sister ship that had come into the Mediterranean by way of Oran, John Laster said it had picked up a...

Willie Wesley Thompson was presented with an American flag [Annotator's Note: The interviewee holds a flag in his hands...

Carey Suratt worked on the hospital ship about three weeks and was then transferred to the LST-452 [Annotator's Note:...

In Benjamin Bederson's estimation, his experience at Los Alamos, New Mexico, qualified him as a physicist. He worked...

Jack Buckner enlisted because he was patriotic. It was his duty. He always wanted to fly so it was a great opportunity...

Jay R. Vargas remember discussing with neighbors what was going in Europe and the Pacific. Everyone in his town found...

A lot Darrell Welch's colleagues [Annotator’s Note: fellow fighter pilots] did not make it. Some wound up in prison...

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