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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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My father raised my sister Diane and me on stories of WWII. Those...

My Father served in WWI. My two older brothers served in WWII,...

My father was in and wounded seriously in the Battle of the...

My father was killed in WWII. His name was Bernard Traynor, he was...

My Father was the air raid warden in our neighborhood and his job...

My father was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. He received the...

My Father went to officer training school in West Palm Beach, FL...

My Father's Belgian Story On September 8, 2002, my father passed...

My father's birthday was December 6th, the Japanese attacked Pearl...

My first memory was 12/7/41 when we heard 'Extra, Extra Read all...

My grandfather - Nate 'the great' Smith - served in India as an MP...

My grandfather is a proud WWII veteran. He is from Aguadilla,...

My grandmother, who lived with us, died the day before Pearl...

My husband Benjamin Ulanoff (changed name from 'Ulano' in 1956). ...

My Husband, Martin Francis was inducted in 1943 and I had to give...

My late husband enlisted in the Navy and left for basic training...

My late husband worked every night at the Wright Aeronautical...

My maiden name was Geraldine Madison at the start of World War Two...

My memories are of being a child in London England where I was...

My memories of WWII era are very pedestrian. I was a child at the...

My most vivid memories of the War years from September 1939 to...

My mother coloring margarine with little yellow tablets - butter...

My mother Sarah, was born in Russia. Sword wielding Bolsheviks on...

My name is Henry Bauer. I was born in Mannheim, Germany on...

My parents and I arrived in New York on July 1939, having been...

My parents immigrated from the Netherlands in 1937, and I was born...

My uncle John Culkin was drafted into the army when he was...

My War Memories by Pamela L. La Bonne I was born in 1939 in New...

MY WORLD WAR II MEMORY It was just before sunup, June 6, 1944,...

MY YOUNG YEARS AS I REMEMBER THEM An Autobiography by Bernard...


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