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Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was a machinist mate and electrician on the USS Albermarle (AV-5). Their mission was to test...

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was shipped...

When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...

James Shelton Scales was born in April 1917 in Sandy Ridge, North Carolina. It was a farming community in Stokes County...

William Burkett had gotten there [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines then Japan] two weeks after the war was over. At...

After separation from the service, David R. Saunders did not take advantage of the G.I. Bill. Saunders' most memorable...

The invasion at Ormoc Bay was small and consisted mainly of destroyers and rocket firing landing craft.The Laffey [...

James Roy Colquitt returned to his home in Alabama after his discharge. He did not have a problem adjusting to civilian...

Marine Corps boot camp was not bad for Ed Weber. They needed bodies then, so it was not that bad. Today, boot camp is...

Adolph Wilson and his battalion of the Marine Paratroopers arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia. They had been preceded by...

Russell Gackenbach felt that Tibbets [Annotator's Note: retired USAF Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets] and crew number...

Leon J. Neiman was born on 20 December 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Neiman and his siblings were all born in the same...

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