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Looking back, Dale Peterson feels honored that he participated in the 2 September 1945 surrender of the Japanese. At...

John DuBose had eight months of back pay when he departed the SS Frenchtown. He was concerned that he would be robbed...

Lawson T. Winslow, Junior's most memorable experience of World War 2 was hearing about the atomic bomb [Annotator's...

For Thomas E. Warne the war ended on 14 August 1945 when the Japanese surrendered to the Americans. He supported the...

Robert Rans was born in Chicago, Illinois in April 1921. Family life was mostly normal until the war started. He worked...

Richard Swanson received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal [Annotator's Note: the highest non-combat decoration awarded...

Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] got a message from the Naval Air Station [Annotator's...

Frank Ramsey had gunnery training in Arizona. They shot a lot of skeet. They had .30 caliber machine guns [Annotator's...

Andrew Kiniry reached Hohra and then entered into Buchenwald. The sights in the concentration camp were unbelievable....

Reflecting on his wartime experiences, Oscar Higgenbotham comments that if you managed to make it through the war...

Nathan Taffel was born in Radomish Weilke, Poland in May 1928. He was the second youngest of ten children, seven girls...

Charles White remembers traveling at night was bad. They could only proceed based on the exhaust from the tank in front...

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