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Edward Bruce Jennings remembers that on their way to Japan, a typhoon came up. The ships had to get out of the bay to...

John Ream had to learn what war was. He thought the hike to Camp John Hay [Annotator’s Note: Camp John Hay in Baguio,...

Otis Kight had a 30 year career in the Navy. He remembers near the end of boot camp when he was given liberty [...

Emiline Ann Bourgeois was stationed at West Point [Annotator's Note: as an Army nurse at the hospital of the United...

Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

James Warren David remarked how he missed eating fresh eggs, roast beef, gravy, seafood, and cous-cous, and other Cajun...

When John Mikus, Jr. enlisted in the Marine Corps, war was different than it is today. The whole country went to war....

Marion Labauve came out of school in seventh grade. He went to work and worked hard. His first job was working on a...

[Annotator's Note: John Stiles was stationed on Okinawa, Japan with Marine Fighting Squadron 312 (VMF-312) when the...

Leo William Schmittgens was born in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri] in February 1926. He had four...

In June 1950, William Jennings Bryan Harrison, Jr. was drafted into the Army for the Korean War [Annotator's Note:...

Cass Phillips got into a ferry squadron after he returned home. He flew all kinds of planes he never could before. He...

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