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William Jackson was first sent to Miami Beach [Annotator's Note: Miami Beach, Florida] following his induction. He...

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

Ray Anthony returned to Cleveland after the war. He began to organize his own band recruiting former Navy bandmembers...

Byron Herbert Meader's division [Annotator's Note: Meader was a member of Headquarters Company, 271st Infantry Regiment...

Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

When William Goldsborough turned 18 in January 1944, he registered for the draft, and was allowed to finish out his...

William Lee Barnes was born in December 1926 in Cottondale, Florida. He started school in Saint Andrews, Florida but...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

John Singlaub experienced live fire training while working with the SOE [Annotator's Note: British Special Operations...

Harold Buell did two combat cruises with two different squadrons aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6), the "Big E." She was...

Claude Shannahan didn't meet any Paramarines at Bloody Ridge. They got beat up landing on Guadalcanal. The rations on...

Julian Trist Bringier McConnell was born in Memphis, [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee], where his father was...

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