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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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The Army offered me the rank of sergeant to enlist, but my...

The attachment constitutes an encapsulation of queries to my...

The August 1st 1943 low-level attack on the ploesti oilfields My...

The first question asked is how did the War change my life? It...

The one outstanding thing I remember is the day my husband...

The trip overseas (9-43?) on a merchant marine ship took 30 days...

The war memories of my class (Harvard '47) were collected and...

THE WAR YEARS My...

The worst impact of World War II was losing my favorite uncle who...

These are my memoirs during the Nazi occupation during World War...

These are some of my memories of time spent in the 3rd US...

Thirteen's recent mailing reqesting memories from World War II ...

This is a TRUE story I wrote about 25 years after the...

This is about the end of the war - V-Day. I was 10 years old. ...

This is concerning my good friend Stanly Wald. It was just after...

This is my memory of D Day, which I thought might interest you. ...

This is my response to your letter about the war. I was shocked...

This is the memory of John Bouvier Johnson from a book he...

This is the memory of my husband After the war my husband had bad...

This memory relates to the long waiting to get home. After the...

This story appeared in the New York Journal American on Tuesday,...

Three people from my wife's family went off to war. Two boys...

Time: Late summer, 1943. Place: Parade ground of Fort Leonard,...

Upon returning from overseas duty, my father was traveling in a...

VJ Day came while my parents and I were in a vacation cottage...

Was born on VJ Day - named Victoria for the Victory.

We All Did Our Bit I was twelve years of age when Britain...

We were lucky Dad came home to us. Some of our cousins and...

We were married 6-7-41 and left for Fort Bragg N.C. My husband Dr....

What I remember vividly were air raid sirens and blackouts. The...


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