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John Kerner crossed the Elbe River where his unit [Annotator's Note: 110th Medical Battalion, 35th Infantry Division]...
Albert G. Sutcliffe was sent to Pearl Harbor's [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] in preparation for going to the...
Archie Kelley thought much more time was going by than really was [Annotator's Note: onboard the now-torpedoed USS West...
[Annotator's Note: Malcolm Ernest was a prisoner of war at Hoten Camp, Mukden, Manchuria; present day China.] Ernest...
The first time Robert Doolan ever flew was in a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] and...
Even now not a day goes by that Norman Bussel does not think of the four of crew members who were killed when their...
After being taken to Gestapo headquarters, Mark Rubin and his family were sent to the Sered transient camp [Annotator's...
Anna Nossbaum and her family were taken to Theresienstadt [Annotator’s Note: Theresienstadt; transit camp and ghetto;...
[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...
John Wesley Tatum was in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division when they landed on...
You could not ask for a better enemy than the Germans. The Germans were very efficient, and Joseph Monteyne [Annotator'...
Leon Schafer has been to Europe a number of times since 68 [Annotator's Note: 1968] when all of his family went. His...
The war did not change Raymond Kaiser a bit. He felt like he was doing his job. He was in [Annotator's Note: in the...
The invasion of the Admiralty Islands [Annotator's Note: Admiralty Islands Campaign, Operation Brewer, 29 February to...
John Caudle has had a lot of thoughts over the years. Especially when he came home out of the service and did not have...
While in prison in Nuremberg, Germany, Norman Bussel would get information from the outside from a crystal radio a...
John Campbell wrote about what would have happened if he had had the G.I. Bill. His life would have been different...
Hersey Goodwin and the gunners spent a lot of time with flight recognition. When the plane flew into the one in front,...
Jack Davis' first combat was "scary as hell". He would be walking along the hedgerows [Annotator's Note: man-made...
Cosmo Uttero was in H Company [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry...
Norman Kinsey had a good basis of organization. One of the things learned in the military is that he was not an...
Charles Wesley Borders retired from the United States Air Force on 1 September 1971. He got to be a Wing Commander...
Henry Muller says that the XXIV Corp, Sixth US Army took over Bilibid prison [Annotator’s Note: Old Bilibid and New...
Norris Bucksell says that Rome, Italy is hard to beat. The war ending was great, but Rome was the best. Even the buses...
Chester Brewer flew with the 8th Air Force. His crew was from all over the United States. He flew with the 3rd Division...
The day the war was over is the most memorable for Amelia Taylor. She wanted to serve because her brothers were serving...
Gene Alair's most memorable experience of the war was being back on board the USS Astoria (CA-34), below decks...
Donald Rudolph Carlson feels that World War 2 changed the world. He did not fight in it, because in 1941 when we [...
[Annotator's Note: Edgar De Pue Osgood shows a picture of the USS Iowa (BB-61) that he took through a porthole.] That...
Lorraine Achee feels that the war made it difficult in the sense that she no longer had her big brother around. As kids...
Theodore Skare was on duty in the Pacific with a wife back home. He missed her terribly and was lonesome. He did not...
Going into the Mediterranean on the SS Thomas Nelson Page is the most memorable experience for Edward Kissam. When he...
[Annotator's Note: Leslie B. Mason, Junior served in the Army as a guard at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan prior to the...
George R. Bolin's father [Annotator's Note: Lodwick Timothy "LT" Bolin] never got involved in politics. He managed the...
Martin Brignac does not know how the war would have changed his life unless he had stayed working as a contractor...
As a medic, Lawrence Angst saw a lot. Grave Registration used to get to him. They would come along with trucks and fill...

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