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Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was on many islands [Annotator's Note: in the Pacific Ocean] but the names escape him. There was...

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

Richard Greer left Guadalcanal on 5 or 6 January 1943 and went to Melbourne. He was very happy to be leaving the island...

Edward Riedl thought the people [Annotator's Note: he is referring to the people on Leyte, Philippines] seemed...

Around the time Paul Dietzel flew his first mission, General Curtis LeMay had gone to the Pacific to take over the 20th...

Robert Frederick Reed's time in the service made him wonder why we were at war all the time, with World War 2, the...

Calvin Moore was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when the Japanese surrendered. They were running bets...

When Bill Toledo was home with his grandparents, he did not want to go to school. The school official forced him to go...

After John Votrobeck graduated, he took a train through Omaha, [Annotator's Note: Omaha, Nebraska] and on 20 April [...

Frank Kern, [Annotator's Note: with A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division], arrived in...

After the war ended, Charles A. Waller returned to the United States and was given a 30-day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

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