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Mildred "Jean" Liparoto was born in Vincennes, Indiana in 1919. Her mother was 19 and her father was a widower with two...

Baum served with the 4th Armored Division during WWII. He was born in New York and grew up in the Bronx. His father was...

Manila was "decimated" except for the Mac Arthur Hotel, where the officer's would go, and Ray Gene Gresham said he only...

Joseph Massey was discharged as a PFC [Annotator's Note: Private First Class]. There were no promotions. He was only a...

In Norfolk, Claude Shannahan met a WAVE [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service] girl during...

Growing up, there were very few jobs for women. Lorene Auld's parents had ambition for her. They were living in a small...

The United States came together in the Second World War, Edward Allesandro said, and he is sure that the soldiers'...

Earl Tweed had heard from Lieutenant Al Ungerlighter [Annotator’s Note: unsure of spelling] about concentration camps....

On 9 April [Annotator's Note: 9 April 1945], Russian shock troops burst into the hospital where Wendell Galbraith was a...

When the war was over, Lora E. Daniel's job [Annotator's Note: at the Union Carbide Metallurgical Plant in Sheffield,...

Z. Anthony Kruszewski discusses the history of the Polish language. His mother was evacuated to Ukraine during the...

Monroe Scherer was shipped from Saipan to Guam [Annotator's Note: both in the Mariana Islands] for a few days before...

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