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When Alfred Dearman would come on duty for the morning shift as a jailer, the midnight shift would have had the...

Claude Shannahan and his unit went to Vallejo, California while waiting for transfer papers to go on furlough. Shanahan...

Keith Kiefer was taught about World War 2 in school. The Russians were framed as a stand-offish ally. There was not a...

Mahlen Arledge grew up as a result of World War 2. He understood what life meant. When he went into the service, he...

When hostilities ended, Irwin Schneider was sent up to the Philippine Islands. It was in the Philippines that he was...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

When they landed on New Caledonia they were told they were going to march off their sea legs with a thirty mile hike....

[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...

Thomas Joseph Lemme always felt he could keep up with the other Marines while he was in service. Training was not bad,...

Willard Ashford [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the 134th Naval Construction Battalion in Guam] was preparing to invade...

While on Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Solomon Islands], the island was not fully secured. Haney...

Lawrence Wulf was born in Avoca, Nebraska in May 1919. His father was a farmer but was also the director of a bank his...

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