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Lenwood Steglich [Annotator’s Note: as a Pharmacist’s Mate 1st Class aboard the survey ship USS Bowditch (AGS-4)]...

Joseph Brannan was based for a time in Leghorn, Italy as the city was called in English. It is referred to as Livorno...

Charles Bishop was born in New Haven, Connecticut in November of 1920. The depression years were sketchy. His mother...

Lyle Mitchell wanted to stay working for the Navy after the war, but they cut his pay. He went back to Rochester [...

The prisoners would steal stuff whenever they could. Sometimes the men would get searched. Everyone would throw their...

Lester Hecht's commanding officer's name was John L. Smith [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Colonel John Lucian Smith...

In the main camp [Annotator's Note: Hoten Camp, Mukden, Manchuria; present day China], Malcolm Ernest and the prisoners...

Philip Curran was on Admiral Barbey's [Annotator's Note: US Navy Vice Admiral Daniel Edward Barbey] staff and that was...

John "Jack" Raquepau grew up on a farm in Michigan in the Saginaw Valley. The area is noted for navy beans [Annotator's...

Morton William Werner [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS PC-1220 Patrol Craft] was in the Gulf of Mexico near Key...

In paratrooper training, John Mikus, Jr. was trained as infantry. They had special weapons. In boot camp, they used the...

After the island of Saipan was secured, Ira Schilling and his assault engineer squad of 2nd Marine Division remained on...

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