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Robert Oplinger participated in several battles before Okinawa. It took three months for the United States for defeat...

Jack Vandervort was born in Bigheart, Oklahoma in December 1921. During the Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

After two months in Shanghai, Carl Caffarel made the rounds of ports in Japan. He did a bit of exploring, but...

Robert Fulton and the crew of the USS Houston (CA-30) spent the first day after the Pearl Harbor attack preparing for...

Russell Mayeur sailed on the Reaper [Annotator's Note: vessel name not verified] bound for South America with ports...

Both Air Forces [Annotator's Note: the US Army Air Forces and the Royal Canadian Air Force] did a good job of...

After basic training, Angelo Joseph Spinato was supposed to go to officer training school and come out as a second...

Lawrence Winnier's boot camp [Annotator's Note: in the US Navy] was being taught how to set a table and make beds. They...

Ernest Gross, a prisoner at Kaufering [Annotator's Note: Kaufering; subcamp of Dachau; Landsberg am Lech, Germany],...

Frank Hartzell fought in World War 2 because he was drafted. Otherwise, he probably would have volunteered. That was...

After Vietnam [Annotator's Note: Vietnam War, or Second Indochina War, 1 November 1955 to 30 April 1975], William...

Philip Grass remembers being near Port Moresby [Annotator’s Note: Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea]. Their encampment had...

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