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After two years in the Army, Paul Kerchum was discharged, but re-enlisted for another overseas deployment. His second...

William Darling was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1925. He always wanted to be in the military. He wanted to go to...

John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...

Hershel Williams does not remember knocking out some of the pillboxes. One of them, however, Williams remembers, ran...

George Colburn went to China with the 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division [Annotator's Note: in September 1945]....

Life at the Academy [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland] was very good, and Claude...

John Edward Love [Annotator's Note: an American prisoner of war] and hundreds of other POWs were transferred from O'...

Lionel Lopez was born in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in August 1921. He went to Catholic...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen served in the Navy as a gunner aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). The Samuel B....

Theodore Theodore's most memorable event of the war was being jumped by fighters while leaving Balikpapan [Annotator's...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the Navy. He previously knew he would have to serve. He had no problem with boot camp. He...

William Currier's first seagoing engagement was aboard the USS Hall (DD-583) as part of a task group that escorted...

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