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Fred Whitaker learned to make lists of things to do from the Army. The Army had an intensity he had never experienced...

Samuel W. Smith got the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] up to top speed and buzzed...

Gowan Duffy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in December 1920. He would bounce from one job to another because they...

Lauren Swinney displays a hat from the 1940s with the V for victory emblem on the front of it. The V was a very...

World War II changed John McCarthy and his life tremendously. Without the war, he might have been a factory worker....

Archie Maltbie was called up by the air force in January 1943. After going through the selection school in order to...

Thomas Murphy was drafted into the Army on 8 June [Annotators Note: 8 June 1944]. His father had worked as the...

William Roy was on the USS Yorktown [Annotator's Note: CV-5] when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Yorktown was at Pier 7...

John McGill was in Pisa [Annotator's Note: Pisa, Italy] when the war ended. He had just over the number of necessary...

[Annotator's Note: Alfred Taddeo served in the Navy as a fighter pilot aboard the USS Nassau (CVE-16) in the Aleutian...

Robert Taylor arrived in Samoa in April 1942. The Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] campaign...

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