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Sterling Cale was sent to Korea near Pusan while the rest of the transferred troops went to Sasebo, Japan. He was with...

Wim de Jonge could tell when he left Holland for the East Indies that war was looming. He was not concerned with...

Samuel Hadjinian was sent to Manila, the Philippines to join the 1896th Engineer Aviation Battalion after being drafted...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

On 28 August [Annotator's Note: 28 August 1944], LST-1047 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank], the ship to which...

Oscar Culp was based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when the war with Japan ended. He remembers the day [Annotator's Note:...

The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...

Meda Royce Hall was a Ground School Gunnery Instructor at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida when America went...

Roy Boreen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1920. During the Great Depression, his father worked as a cement...

William Pierce was assigned to Weapons Company, 29th Regiment [Annotator's Note: Weapons Company, 29th Marine Regiment...

Frank Borrell thinks about the men he served with. They became like members of his family. Everyone tried to be friends...

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