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Russell Gackenbach was summoned one day after dinner to answer the phone. He knew that something had to be wrong for...

James Goodrich and his buddy dug a foxhole. His buddy put a big branch across the top of the hole. Later that night...

Robert L. Rorschach enlisted in the Navy and attended Midshipman School at Prairie State, and spent time aboard the...

Burton "Burt" Johnson went to mortar school [Annotator's Note: M2 60mm mortar at Camp Elliot in San Diego, California...

They started back to Australia to begin the process of removing the dead from the ship [Annotators Note: from the USS...

Frederick Grun returned to the United States by way of Hawaii. The four days he spent quartered at Hospital Point in...

Thomas Paris went from radio school to Houston [Annotator’s Note: Houston, Texas] in order to go to Alaska. He got his...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roy Boreen was stationed at the Section Base until 1943. After that, he was sent to...

William Wayne has two bad memories of Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. The first was going across open land and...

Abraham Rosenzweig is proud of his years of service in the Coast Guard. That feeling has grown over the years. World...

John Nicholas lost touch with his half brother, George Hamaty, for three years during the war. While Nicholas was on...

Nick Cristiano has no idea where his Japanese prison guards went when the war ended. A whole new crew came in. The new...

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