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Emory Maurice Ornelles was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in September 1922. He lived in Waikiki two blocks from the beach...

Theodore Vallas was a member of Torpedo Squadron 7 serving as a navigator and bombardier [Annotator's Note: flying from...

James Britt went to OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school]. He was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma to an...

John Scott Campbell feels that Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United...

Henry Heim was 17 years old when he went to work in the mine with his father. He shoveled coal into a buggy. His father...

Gordon Higgins traveled by train to Camp Shanks, New York, where troops were collecting before shipping out. He was...

Lawrence Angst never became a doctor because he could not. He came back and recovered from his injuries, but he could...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Childs was a pilot during the Berlin Airlift in Germany.] The first time he landed, the door...

When the draft began in 1942, everyone from the ages 17 and a half to 35 years old had to sign up. Roberto "Bob” Ruiz...

William S. Meyers, Jr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was in Brussels [Annotator’s Note:...

Elmo Bell's 1st Battalion commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Alexander, was always worried about the business...

Hana Zoltz lived in the ghetto [Annotator's Note: the Lodz ghetto in Poland] as a young girl. She made few friends...

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