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Jack Vandervort chose to leave the US Merchant Marine. He did not like it too well. He was drafted and went to Camp...

In July 1946, Carl Caffarel was separated from the Navy and put on inactive reserve. He went back to Port Allen, and...

Robert Fulton and the USS Houston (CA-30) joined other American, British, Dutch and Australian [Annotator's Note: also...

Harry Watson said that when the war started, the submarines were used merely as a scouting force. They would get...

Russell Mayeur returned home between his second and third voyages as a Merchant Mariner. He and his fiancée were...

Roger Bowers was born in May 1924 in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania. His father worked part-time for the Pennsylvania...

Joseph Monteyne worked briefly in intelligence [Annotator's Note: after finishing his missions as a navigator in the...

Angelo Joseph Spinato went to Camp Maxey [Annotator's Note: in Lamar County, Texas] and all of the men had to stand in...

Lawrence Winnier cannot really blame the people because it [Annotator's Note: racial discrimination in the service] was...

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

William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the US Army Air Forces] was about 20 miles away from where Mussolini [...

Philip Grass thinks the war helped him become a better citizen. At the time, he did not think he sacrificed anything....

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