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New York War Stories : Your Memories. Your Words.

Story Archive

This archive contains the treasury of war stories that we've collected from over the past months. You can peruse the list of stories using the navigation at the top and bottom, or type a query into the search box to find something specific. You can also check the Explore by Subject list for topics of interest.

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I was seventeen, living in New York when Pearl Harbor was...

I was sixteen and When the attack occurred, and offended that fate...

I was the original staff and combat artist on 'Stars and Stripes'...

I was too young to have any actual memory but I now that we have a...

I was very young during the war and only have a few memories. The...

I was visiting my brother, stationed at Lowry Field, Denver,...

I was wounded in WW2 late December 1944 (Germany Ardennes) Army. ...

I went to high school in Babylon, LI, NY during the war - from...

I went to work at 16 in a war factory one month after Dec. 7, 1941...

I wonder how many people are aware of how close World War II came...

I would love for you to contact my father in law who was a Lt. on...

I wrote the enclosed article for the retirement community's...

I'm a volunteer at Channel Thirteen. I've been entering the WWII ...

In 1938 my family escaped to the Philippines for The War with...

In 1939 I was 15 years old and attending Secondary School in...

In 1939 I was 9 years old and remember the superintendent and his...

In 1939 when the war started in Europe I was 14. We heard about...

In 1941 I was 11 years old, when we got into the war. I decided to...

In 1941 my parents, my brother and his wife left Antwerp to go to...

In 1942 a little boy in a small Polish town was standing on a side...

In combat - Battle of the Bulge I, Harry Lutke was overseas for...

In January 1942, at the age of 21, I was told to report to work at...

In July of 1939 I joined with a group of young people from the US...

In March 1946, while waiting to be mustered out at end of war, I...

In third grade, 1944, I asked my teacher Ms. Kennedy when D- Day...

It was a beautiful December Sunday, I told the civilian women they...

It was a very cold December day in NYC - I was a 16 year old...

It was October 1942. I had been trained as an airplane and engine...

It was on Mother's day that I had the first opportunity to discuss...

It was rumored that Hitler had submarines cruising our waters...


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