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Robert Leroy Shirkey was selected to join the Alamo Scouts [Annotator's Note: 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit] in...

Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson entered the Navy in May 1945 at the age of 17 and did basic training at Great Lakes Naval...

James Franklin Young was born in Toledo, Ohio in June 1921. He grew up with one older brother. His mother and father...

Mahlen P. Arledge was born in Dixie, Louisiana in 1924. As a young man in the Depression era, his father had oil wells...

Being in a hole with Jimmy Grimes when he got shot through the head, and Harrington got his belly split open stands out...

At Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Donald Draxler was apprehensive, but not afraid to...

Lawrence Wulf was born in Avoca, Nebraska in May 1919. His father was a farmer but was also the director of a bank his...

Adolph William Amundson was sent to Jacksonville, Florida to train in multi-engine planes. He flew PBY’s [Annotator's...

Marthe Cohn did not continue with intelligence work after World War 2 [Annotator's Note: Cohn was a spy in the 151st...

Crump was only aware that the Depression was a tragedy. Times were hard. Crump’s dad was unemployed half of the time....

Peter Gallo never got hit, but while he was on Leyte, he contracted malaria. He ran a high fever and was throwing up,...

James Shelton Scales did not have to make the initial landing [Annotator's Note: on Iwo Jima, Japan]. He and his...

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