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Mahlen Arledge arrived at home from his overseas service without fanfare or even a greeting. He was glad to get back to...

Loren Bennett was born in October 1927 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. He did not have any siblings....

James Patterson and his crew flew over water for several hours before doing their mapping work. Their missions ran...

When the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier] was attacked and ensign Mears and...

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

Ira Schilling and the 6th Marine Regiment travelled from New Zealand to Guadalcanal on a hot and crowded military...

After the invasion of the Kwajalein Atoll [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, 31 January to 3 February...

Richard Miralles got word on his 18th birthday that they were going home. He went on liberty [Annotator's Note: an...

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

Randall Edwards does not remember how he got "mixed up with the Russians," but he has photos that prove he did. He does...

Robert Hammond didn't like the military's practice of segregation. At the time he first encountered prejudice in South...

After leaving the scene of the USS Laffey (DD-724) and before reaching his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Shamrock Bay...

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