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During his time on PT-171, Olaf Rose took instruction from veteran engineers, and gradually got comfortable with his...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was in New Caledonia when he received transfer orders from USS Patterson (DD-392) to an oil burning...

Benjamin Albert Glusing's friends operated the prisoner of war stockade on New Caledonia. Glusing liked to visit his...

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer was sent to Korea on occupation duty after Japan surrendered.] The Russians had...

Donald Stratton went to Corona, California towards the end of 1942. He was there for a couple months before he was...

Walter Bank's family lived on a small farm, and wasn't greatly affected by the Great Depression. They never talked...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was still on the ship when the Marines on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]...

Charles Brooks was born in Dallas, Texas. Life in the Great Depression was difficult. His mother had been widowed when...

As far as Yukio Kawamoto could tell, he did not experience too much racism or ill feelings towards him. Most of his...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters and Service Company, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...

On the morning of 3 February 1945, a mortar shell dropped in the rice paddy alongside Theodore Pavlovich and he took...

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