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Richard Tempus Dixon progressed through jobs as a building superintendent, including a time at University of California...

The Army Air Corps had so many people in the system that they had to figure out what to do with them so they created...

By the time Kenneth A. Lafleur had enough points to go home, he had flown 41 missions in the Pacific. Lafleur remarked...

Martin Carmody and Les Ward finally joined back up with each other. They had both consumed a lot of fuel during their...

Thomas Kolesa feels he had the best education he could have ever gotten from the Marine Corps. When he got into...

Karen K. Lewis was born in 1932 in Glendale, California. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

Surviving a Storm

Kenneth Killilea was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up there for the most part. He also lived in Wellesley,...

Frederick Haack [Annotator's Note: a cargo pilot] flew to Sacramento [Annotator's Note: Sacramento, California] where...

When the Marines were about half way down Okinawa the Japanese got around behind them. Robert Akins and some of his...

Joseph Fisher joined the Navy in 1942. His big brother was in the Navy. They used to swim a lot growing up. Fisher was...

After the war, James Smith had a hard time adjusting to civilian life. He got a job before he was even discharged from...

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