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Ed Weber went into the service on 5 December 1942 and went to the San Diego Marine Corps base [Annotator's Note: Marine...

When he was in high school, Paul Amrod played baseball as a catcher. In the service, he learned he was not major league...

During the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...

Louis Andriano served during World War 2 because he does not think he had a choice. His father said he had to either...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

Paul Ignatius did not have post-traumatic stress or nightmares from his experiences in World War 2. He is proud of his...

In the 1930s, Thomas E. Warne was living at the Del Monte Plantation in the Philippines because his father was the...

It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

The first time Mort Oman experienced enemy fire was in the Philippines when the Japanese fired upon him, and he did not...

[Annotator's Note: Michael Mervosh served in the USMC in Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

Mahlen Arledge entered Japan on a landing craft after the end of the Pacific war. Though told that the troops did not...

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