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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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Born in Maribor (former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) April 1941...

Both Uncle John and Uncle Morris left the island of Fitzgerald, GA...

By day I worked under Hrnty David in the New York office of the...

Capt. Jerry Casper, my brother, was a famous war hero. I...

Captured at Corregidor, survived the Bataan Death March and the...

Check this story out: At the start of WWII the U.S. had an...

CHIEF WAHOO During World War II, I was a teenage member of a...

D Day June 6 1944 was my 18th birthday. I was drafted September...

Dad graduated from Boonton H.S. in 1941 and when war broke out...

Darfted - April 1943 - Private USAF Commissioned - June 1944 -...

Dear Sirs, My name is Robert G. Clarfield and I was born in...

December 7, 1941, the onset of WW II, when I was 20 years old,...

Drafted in February 1941 - was scheduled to be discharged as a...

During Breakfast on Dec. 7th the news of Pearl Harbor came...

During the African invasion (1942 ?) my father (a 34 year old...

During the summer of 1942 my friend Anne and I worked at the...

During the war my father's family was split apart - half were in...

During the War three sisters turned their father's estate into a...

During the war years between 1941 and 1945, I was a child (4 to 8...

During the war, I was between the ages of 5 and 9 years old. I...

During World War II I served as a Captain in the 14th Armored...

During WWII I was a teenager, living with my parents who were...

During WWII, servicemen did not have to queue up at Radio City...

Enlisted November 1942. Sent to school at Park Row in New York...

Everyone older than myself, of my personal acquaintance, who could...

Excepted from Princeton University Class of 1947's Fiftieth...

Farmers needed help desperately during the war to harvest their...

Fire watching in Plymouth. Complained to girlfriend that I wished...

First a comment - Your reason #2 is a sad situation of our...

For two years of the four years in the Army, I was with Special...


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