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In Iceland, Keith Renstrom took and passed the test for corporal. When he got back to San Diego, he took the test for...

Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...

Lester Hecht returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Coast Guard boat. He was sent...

In June 1950, William Jennings Bryan Harrison, Jr. was drafted into the Army for the Korean War [Annotator's Note:...

Chuck was able to see his Ford Coupe being driven around the island by the Japanese from a window in the church they...

Choosing to go in the Navy [Annotator's Note: in 1944] was natural for Philip Curran. He grew up on the water. His...

Patrick Zilliacus was born in May 1926 in Helsinki, Finland. Life growing up was fantastic. His parents divorced when...

During their return to the United States, John Nicholas and the crew of the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-...

Edwin Henlebin described the beachhead as glutted with supplies. The problem was getting the material from the beach to...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine during World War 2. Thinking about the war, he says that during it he...

David R. Saunders traveled down the river [Annotator's Note: the Mississippi River] and out into the Gulf of Mexico....

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