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Off the Bookshelf — ‘A Soldier’s Sketchbook’

on January 5, 2012

By John Burlingham Senior Editor Joseph Farris, the longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, ...

1940s

As You Were — Christmas away from home

on November 30, 2011

Caroling Recruit in Biloxi By George Procak White Lake, New York I celebrated my first ...

1940s RichardCrop

Hub Zemke saved us…twice

on September 6, 2011

It happens so often in our lives, we don’t fully appreciate what people do for ...

1940s FRIENDLY SKIES. Enemy "Betty" bombers no longer worried the ground troops. Vernon Erickson watched this plane touch down with Japan's surrender team in 1945 (click on image to view larger).

These ‘Bettys’ were beauties after long years in Pacific

on August 25, 2011

August 19, 1945, was a day I’ve never forgotten. Back then, I was a B-25 ...

1940s V-J Day Kids

After 66 years, memories of Victory in Japan Day shine on

on August 24, 2011

In spite of the weather, we’d been issued heavy winter gear in preparation for the ...

1940s

Soldiers and Spies at York Beach

on August 1, 2011

By Stanley W. Wright Waterford, Maine As a young boy, I lived on Long Sands ...

Home Front (Click on images for larger view)

Couple’s wartime correspondence was stamped with love

on July 20, 2011

Most people thought of my late husband, Ray, as a real extrovert. He liked to ...

1940s Gladys and Francis Calderwood

‘I was a G.I. war bride’

on July 5, 2011

At the height of World War II, I worked as a teleprinter operator at a ...

1940s

“Old Fritz” did his part to build morale

on June 30, 2011

When I was a kid, my hometown of West Bend, Wisconsin, always had a wonderful ...

1940s Leland Spore and friend Robert Lee Miller (1)

Men got plenty of ‘training’ but skipped boot camp

on June 2, 2011

On June 26, 1943, about 50 of us boarded a train in Portland, Oregon, headed ...