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Robert Leroy Shirkey was born in Vliets, Kansas in April 1924. He grew up on a farm with eight brothers and sisters....

For a couple of weeks, Richard Jaccarino unloaded ships and moved supplies inland. The enemy was expected to come back...

Donald Stratton went aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) in Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona (BB-39) put the Missouri to shame...

Jack Yusen remembers the shells flying by sounded like freight trains and the explosions sounding like thunder. Another...

Richard Witaker was awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded on Okinawa. He was leaving Sugar Loaf Hill when a buddy...

Thomas Crosby described the internee committee for the internment camp [Annotator's Notes: the Santo Tomas Internment...

Clifford Albert Hahn entered basic training at Fort Lee, Virginia [Annotator's Note: he had enlisted in July 1942]....

Paul Sartori Jr. returned home in January 1946. His father was waiting for him. He needed him to go to work. He was a...

Paris Tognoli wonders how he made it. He pondered that many times in his life. He got to go home. When he landed in the...

John Caudle became very close friends with his crew. It was a lot like family. He went to Clovis, New Mexico and was...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner was seventeen when he joined the Navy. He did not want to crawl through the bushes and see the...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. They were based out of Guam [...

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