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William C. Ellzey, a corpsman in the US Navy, evacuated the wounded from Pacific islands and brought them back to the...

Thomas J. Kingsley was born in July 1925 in Waterloo, Iowa and grew up there. He had an older brother and sister and a...

Harold Jones' [Annotator's Note: combat veteran of the Philippines with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th...

Reneau Breard was stationed in the mountains of Italy near Naples [Annotator’s Note: Naples, Italy]. His unit was...

Henry Muller was a second lieutenant training new recruits shortly after the draft began. He was wondering what his...

Frank William Buschmeier served as a waist gunner with the 350th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air...

Sammy Ray was born in the small town of Mulberry, Kansas. His father sold dry goods to African-American sharecroppers,...

James McDermott does not think the Japanese surrender affected him as much as the war in Europe ending did because he...

Clyde Nordstrom cannot say that his life changed much after the declaration of war [Annotator's Note: on Japan, after...

Robert Maxwell stays busy representing veterans. He is committed to a local memorial for them. It lists names of men...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Grunte was a Latvian prisoner in a labor camp in the Soviet Union after World War 2.] He was...

[Annotator's Note: After the war ended in Europe, David Foerster was assigned to a hurricane tracking crew out of Key...

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