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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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Niort, France, October 9, 1942, 7AM. The French police comes to...

On 12-07-01, I was playing in a soccer match at Van Cortlandt...

On board PO-790, moored at Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay,...

On Dec 7, 1941 when the news was broadcast on the radio that the...

On Dec. 7, 1941 I was at the Polo Grounds watching the football...

On December 7th, 1941 I was at the Polo Grounds watching the...

On December 7th, 1941, a Sunday, it was raining very hard in...

On December 7th, 1941, at the age of six years, I was in Miami...

On February 12th, 1943, I took an oath for induction into the U.S....

On June 5, 1945 on a bombing mission against Kobe, Japan, I was...

ON PEARL HARBOR DAY I WAS 16, A SENIOR IN BOARDING SCHOOL, AT A...

On Pearl Harbor Day, December 7th, 1941, I was on the high seas...

On VE Day my mother and I (I was 15) went from our home in Queens...

One day in 1945 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, I went downtown with...

One of my earliest memories of WW11 is Christmas 1944. My father...

Pearl Harbor I was playing football at the park. Upon returning...

Pearl Harbor Day - sitting in a high chair showing off my...

Pfc. Carmine Pesce company K, 104th Infantry Division I am the...

Pre-Sept '39: early 1938 my grandmother was visiting relatives in...

Rationing & Blackouts - Recycling especially aluminum. I was a...

Recent articles in the press cast doubts about the validity of...

Remembering World War II I was born in July 1935 and so was 4...

Richard Solow I was born on November 7th, 1935, so my memories of...

September 1, 1939. I was 10 years old exiting an Asbury Park, NJ...

SEPTEMBER 2, 1939 AS A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL, I WITNESSED THE GESTAPO...

Shipping out. In mid-July 1944, I went to sea as an ordinary...

So many things come back to me (at age 91): Blood for Britain,...

Soon after Okinawa was secure we had only tents to sleep in. On...

Stanley Pollinger - WW2 - Army Rita Pollinger WW2 - Navy

TALES OF WORLD WAR II IN THE EYES OF A FIVE YEAR OLD GIRL I...


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