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Edgar R. "Ross" Forman was at home when he learned about Pearl Harbor Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Frederick Henry's [Annotator's Note: a Military Police officer in the US Army, stationed at Tuskegee, Alabama] job...

By the end of January 1945, Carroll Knutson could hear the artillery fire in the distance as the Soviets advanced into...

Don Bowling trained with rifles, machine guns, and mortars. He landed on Omaha [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach, Normandy...

Donald Wilson and the USS Vincennes (CL-64) participated in the shore bombardment of Saipan and Tinian during the...

It was Walter Bank's first time in the Pacific, and he found it "different." Few Japanese spoke English, and he had to...

Annaliese Nossbaum was moved into a former nun’s cloister in Bonn, Germany when she was 12 years old. The Jews in Bonn...

James Mather joined the V-5 Program [Annotator's Note: V-5 US Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1939 to 1943] and flew...

After Calvin F. Bannon completed flight school and received his commission in Texas, he was sent to Miami Beach [...

Dean Whittaker had been liberated from a prisoner of war camp in Germany [Annotator’s Note: Stalag VII-A in Moosburg,...

On 6 August 1945, Gerald Abbenhaus was training with the 3rd Chemical Mortar Battalion north of Nuremburg, Germany. The...

Fred Amram paid a lot of attention to the war in Europe. His father listened to the news on the radio. As the war ended...

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