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Choosing to go in the Navy [Annotator's Note: in 1944] was natural for Philip Curran. He grew up on the water. His...

Buck Donaldson was headed to LSU [Annotator’s Note: Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana]. He had a...

When John Mikus, Jr. enlisted in the Marine Corps, war was different than it is today. The whole country went to war....

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Bailey served in the Navy as a 20mm antiaircraft gunner aboard the aircraft carrier USS...

Yukio Kawamoto was born in Berkeley, California in November 1919. He was drafted into the Army from the University of...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Division returned to Maui from Tinian. There was a big luau and then training started...

Tyler flew a number of missions at Guadalcanal and again later in the Philippines. On the 15th of June 43 [Annotator's...

Marion Labauve came out of school in seventh grade. He went to work and worked hard. His first job was working on a...

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

Eugene Corson went to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22 June...

Robert A. Addison was born in Akron, Ohio on 7 December 1922. The family moved several times but settled down in...

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