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While approaching Wana Draw on Okinawa, George Peto noticed some movement in the brush off to his left. He realized...

Mark Brannon was born in January 1917 in Augusta, Kansas, the third of six children in the family of a man who was in...

Edmond Guidry was 900 miles south of Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] when a...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

Richard Nummer returned to the United States in July 1946 after being in Japan for nine months. While on the trip home...

Dee Wayne White was discharged from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey in January 1949 with the rank of T/5 [Annotator’s Note:...

Warren J. Haslauer [Annotator's Note: with the 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] was sitting in the mess hall...

Roger Shaw wanted to ship out on a vessel that traversed the Mississippi River frequently. This would better enable him...

As the war was nearing its end, some of William Cart's friends were sent to China but he went up to the Roi fighter...

Bloody Ridge had other names but that night it was officially named Bloody Ridge. It was the one spot that the Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Chatterton served in the Navy as a radio man aboard the USS LCI(L)-334], a Landing Craft...

Richard Hebert, Sr. was born in June 1926 in Jennings, Louisiana with three brothers and three sisters. His brother...

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