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Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

Paul Lawrence was at the Harvard [Annotator's Note: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts] commencement speech...

David Lansou served in World War 2 in the signal company, headquarters battalion, 5th Marine Division. He was born in...

Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson was born in Bronson, Florida in December 1927. He had five brothers and sisters. His father, an...

The prisoners had their own doctors they had to rely on. They had a Japanese doctor assigned to them but he was not 1...

[Annotator's Note: Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson served in the Navy in Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 6 (MTBRon 6) and took...

[Annotator's Note: James McEnery served in the USMC as a rifleman in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

Crain watched about the first 10 minutes of the movie "Saving Private Ryan." He is normally able to keep his emotions...

Raymond Gimbut joined the crew of the Selfridge [Annotator's Note: USS Selfridge (DD-357)]. He thought it was a good...

Richard Bennett remembers that it was in the Palau Islands that his vessel had their most memorable encounters with the...

Henry Ratcliff was most affected by the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also called shimbu-...

In Iceland, Keith Renstrom took and passed the test for corporal. When he got back to San Diego, he took the test for...

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