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George Colburn had never been away from home until arriving at Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit...

Wiley was put into a shack and slept the night there. That night he met the Chief of the tribe and was taken to a...

Garland Bath was on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] near the battleship Tennessee [Annotator's Note: the...

A kamikaze hit Jack Dunlavy's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Missouri (BB-63)] on 11 April [Annotator's Note: 11 April...

Donald H. "Don" Bee was sent from Great Lakes Training Center [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake...

Benjamin Carson had trained at Pearl Harbor in preparation for the raid on Makin Island. They boarded the submarines...

In October 1944, Jack H. Bleuler was assigned to a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber]...

[Annotator's Note: Susan Magnuson Devoe and her family were forced into the Santo Tomas Internment Camp or Manila...

Richard Witaker was awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded on Okinawa. He was leaving Sugar Loaf Hill when a buddy...

One night, Leon Griffith was on patrol. The sergeant said they should all lay down and go to sleep. The moon came up...

Julian Trist Bringier McConnell was born in Memphis, [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee], where his father was...

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

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