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Attack on 23 October 1944

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was still on the ship when the Marines on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]...

Edward Riedl played baseball in the 1930s. His goal was to be a professional baseball player. New Orleans [Annotator's...

Pearson Riddle was born in Pensacola, North Carolina and grew up in the country. His father had a farm of about 120...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew [Annotator's Note: with the 96th Infantry Division] was sent to Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Claude Shannahan left Tulagi and boarded the USS Colhoun (APD-2) on the way to Guadalcanal. They had just gotten into...

Frank V. Tarkington was born in March 1916 in Oakland, California. He was orphaned, as his mother died when he was...

DeMers was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin on March 3rd, 1915. He had 6 brothers and 6 sisters. All 13 lived to be to...

Thomas Crosby's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the end. His experience in the war gave him a great...

Paul Sparacino thought the explosions were unreal [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5)...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt worked in an art studio for an artist. He made picture frames and sometimes was used as a model....

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