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Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...

Melvin C. Whitman was born and raised in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. In high school, his...

William Lutz went into a cave on Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg; 1 April...

James Buckley was assigned to the USS LST-1013, a Landing Ship, Tank. It was as long as football field and 50 feet wide...

Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

On 6 August 1945, Russell Gackenbach was ordered on a special mission to Japan. At three o’clock in the morning, his...

After joining the Marine reserves following World War 2, John Edward Campbell found work for a pharmaceutical company...

Paul J. Frisco enlisted in the Navy because of his father's service during World War 1 and because of the Navy's...

Pete Brock was born in April 1926 in Columbia, South Carolina. He grew up with a twin brother and two sisters. His...

Davis Gordon Mayes heard about the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan through the radio receivers while he was...

When alerts came in for kamikaze attacks, Carroll George had to be in the engineering room [Annotator's Note: aboard...

Crump got to Panteloria and was alongside the dock. All of the German prisoners of war did the work. They were younger...

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