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During the war, Melvin Linkous experienced an incident where an individual accused him of having a soft job. Captain...

William Wayne left the United States for the first time and it was not scary, but it was different. They made their way...

In Brussels, Belgium, Joseph Pilcher was surprised to run into his former typing teacher from Lafayette High School [...

On 3 May 1941, the Japanese landed on Mindanao [Annotator's Note: Mindanao, Philippines]. Milton L. McMullen, Sr. and...

Donald G. Watson and his unit [Annotator's Note: 271st Engineer Combat Battalion, 71st Infantry Division] moved through...

For the first four months of his service, William Patrick Bonelli made 21 dollars a month. He had very little training...

Darrell Welch and his squadron [Annotator's Note: 27th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force] kind of...

[Annotator's Note: Vernon Brantley and the 289th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division were in Germany when the war...

Edwin Sved’s wife mentions that they met and married in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania],...

Dale Smith was assigned to the USS Proteus (AS-19), a submarine repair and supply ship. It was big and had about 800...

When Anna McCalla Noren arrived on Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] on 3 August 1945 with...

Robert Guitard could tell we were no longer at war when women could buy silk stockings, and everyone could buy butter....

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