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Chester Biernacki returned to the United States and was based at Treasure Island near San Francisco. While there on...

Clem Thrift said the United States was suffering under the threat of German submarine attacks, so the destroyer escorts...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

Irwin Stovroff marched into his POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp, Stalag Luft I, and was greeted by...

On 2 March 1945, Eugene Vaadi and his crew were shot down over Dresden, Germany and taken prisoner. On 4 April 1945,...

After the war, James Richard O'Rorke stumbled into various events that made his career what it was. That included some...

Emil Kesselman liked being a civilian and a father, and did not have any ideas of going back in the service [Annotator’...

John Angier was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft VII-A [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany] STalag VII...

Walter Amoss reached the Imperial Hotel [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] where the headquarters for MacArthur [...

Donald H. "Don" Bee saw a man who was captured after he got out of his airplane waving at the Americans [Annotator's...

John Kreutzberg’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on...

Edwin Knight did not know where he was being shipped. He arrived at his destination at night and was told he was in New...

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