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William Lansford and the other Marine Raider recruits were taken to Jacques Farm where they began their training. The...

John E. Johnson fought in World War 2 because he had to. He was drafted. Johnson acknowledges the war changed his life...

John Caudle was born in January 1926 in a farmhouse in Farmington [Annotator's Note: Farmington, North Carolina]. It...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

Robert Freligh served during the war because he felt it was his duty. He was also 20 years old at the time and thought...

The first thing they [Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody and his rear seat gunner John Liska] needed was water. Behind...

Carl Trim did not find it hard to adjust to civilian life. He attended college, while his wife worked. In 1948, Trim...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the rest of the captured Wake Marines [Annotator's Note: US Marines who were captured when...

Rex James Bates was born in November 1923 in Seattle, Washington. His father served as a drummer in the Navy during...

Frank George Memory worked mainly with the officers [Annotator’s Note: Memory was assistant navigator aboard the USS...

The survivors hiked down the mountain to an enormous canoe that had paddlers down both sides with space in the middle....

Henry Ratcliff joined the Army Air Forces and went many places including California where it rained a lot. Eating in...

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