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A regular day for Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] was to keep the transmitters going...

Frank Ramsey remembers they had spam sandwiches and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches [Annotator’s Note: to eat while...

Andrew Kiniry is frustrated with politicians today. He sees the graves of the dead in foreign battlefields and thinks...

Nathan Taffel and other Jews were forced by the Germans to build roads in Poland. At times, his life was threatened....

Dee Wayne White’s most memorable experience of his service was in the Merchant Marine when his ship took on several...

Eileen Noll was born in 1924 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. She grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

After they were liberated, Thomas Crosby's mother wanted to return to the United States. They were able to sail on a...

Burton Lewis entered Germany and helped set up a factory to manufacture netting in preparation for the crossing of the...

Glen Kuskie had survived being a Japanese prisoner of war in the Philippines and he finally returned to the United...

Before Calvin Summers was discharged, he told his family he was on his way home. While he was still in Maryland, he...

Bud Loring ended up at a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp after making it back to the front lines. When...

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