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Bailey, Herman Segment 1
Bailey was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina on 12 September 1921.During the Great Depression Bailey's clothes were worn out, he went b
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Baker, Dan Segment 3
Dan Baker was later assigned to the Vienna area command under General Mark Clark, where there was a four power command.
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Baker, Vernon Segment 14
At the end of the war Vernon Baker was a second lieutenant but in May of 1945 he became a first lieutenant.
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Baker, Vernon Segment 3
Vernon Baker stayed at Geiger Airfield until October 1942 when they went back to Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
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Baldwin, Lewis "Jack" Segment 1
Baldwin was born on 7 February 1922 in Jasper, Alabama. His family moved to Birmingham in 1928 when he was 6 years old.
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Baldwin, Lewis "Jack" Segment 2
The next morning, possibly around 3 am, Baldwin and the rest of Cannon Company were told to get ready to go ashore.
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Ballew, Thomas Military Training
Thomas Ballew briefly considered joining the Marine Corps but decided that he would wait to be called up. He was drafted in June 1943.
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Barfoot, Van The CCC, Joining the Army and Fighting in Sicily and Italy
Van Barfoot first served with the 1st Infantry Division after he enlisted at Fort Benning, Georgia.
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Barnes, Alton Becoming a Soldier and Overseas Deployment
Alton Barnes went to Fort McPherson, Georgia and then back to Fort McClellan [Annotator's Note: near Anniston, Alabama] after his entry into t
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Barrett, Elizabeth Prewar Life in the Philippines
After five or six years in Atlanta, Georgia, Elizabeth Barrett's family was stationed at Fort McKinley, very close to Manila in the Philippine
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Barrett, Elizabeth War Years and After
Elizabeth Barrett and her mother waited and waited, she said, and propped each other up during the time their husbands were away.
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Barrick, Calvin New Georgia then going home
[Annotators Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] After Bloody Ridge they went up the Matanikau.