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Lee Miller: Witness to the Concentration Camps and the Fall of the Third Reich
One of America’s only women war correspondents reports on the liberation of the concentration camps, Soviet and American troops meeting at Torgau, and Hitler’s burning villa in Berchtesgaden
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Adelaide Wisdom Benjamin
S/Sgt. James Killion, Jr. served for six years in the US Army. In the rain and mud of France, he dreamed of reuniting with his wife and meeting his infant son.
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2nd Lieutenant Grant Ichikawa
Grant Ichikawa volunteered for US Army service while incarcerated in the Gila River camp. His service as a Japanese translator and interpreter was just the beginning of a long military career.
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Mildred Bonvillian Aupied
At Delta Shipbuilding Company, welder Mildred Aupied was part of an army of American civilians working to build the “Arsenal of Democracy.”
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Staff Sergeant James Killion Jr.
S/Sgt. James Killion, Jr. served for six years in the US Army. In the rain and mud of France, he dreamed of reuniting with his wife and meeting his infant son.
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Honorary Veteran Bob Hope
Entertainer Bob Hope brought comfort to generations of American troops on the Home Front and on battlefronts beginning in World War II.
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1st Lt. Shannon Estill
1st Lt. Shannon Eugene “Gener” Estill comes alive in his letters. His persona emerges from the page in conversations with his wife, Mary Kathryn Taylor Estill.
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Staff Sergeant Edward A. Carter Jr.
By the time Edward Carter had turned 24, he had fought alongside the Chinese against the Japanese, served in the Merchant Marine, and, finding that uneventful, joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the fight against the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War.
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Major Birdie Daigle
Enemy action still raged on Saipan when 10 American Army nurses landed there on July 9, 1944. Major (then Captain) Birdie Daigle was in command of the group, who found an utterly destroyed landscape and 900 wounded civilians.
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Lee Miller in Combat
One of America’s only female war correspondents reported on the aftermath of D-Day, the Battle of Saint-Malo, and the liberation of Paris.
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Lee Miller: Women at War
One of America’s only female war correspondents captured the war through women’s service.
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Mustang Pilot: Captain Mark H. Stepelton, US Army Air Forces
Mark Stepelton flew in some of the most dangerous environments of the war by escorting bombing aircraft over occupied Europe and conducting air interdiction missions, striking enemy targets deep behind the lines.