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While Carey Suratt was aboard the 452 [Annotator's Note: USS LST-452], the ship landed on New Guinea. While there,...

Alexander Vraciu lost his wing man, Brockmeyer [Annotators Note: US Navy Ensign Homer Brockmeyer], out over the...

Romus Burgin and the men of the 5th Marine Regiment shipped out from Melbourne in September 1943 and were stationed for...

Sidney Philips remembers someone being perfect. He was handsome, young, and the girls loved him. Phillips tells...

On occasion, Charles Nathan Lane would be under fire from Japanese snipers. One Japanese sniper fired at a soldier...

The war changed George Peto. After the war he was reluctant to make close friends. The separation of servicemen during...

George Hamilton was born in April 1922 in West Monroe, Louisiana. Hamilton lived in five states before he was six years...

Robert Brant and his ship made it to Kyushu, Japan after hitting a typhoon in the Pacific. Brant recalled having ill...

During the battle Commander Becton [Annotator's Note: Admiral F. Julian Becton] was very calm. He gave orders to the...

Fulton "Jack" Taylor was born in 1925 in Corbin, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: cannot verify town name]. The family...

In 1944, Kenneth A. Lafleur and the 22nd Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force were sent to an airfield in Finschhafen, New...

Samuel Ukrop [Annotator's Note: while serving with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division...

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