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Erik Johnsen, a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine says that New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1920s was active with all...

Howard Hart was born in Saint Louis in 1938. His father was a mining engineer in the Philippines prior to the war. His...

Frank Campisano was born in April 1926 in Louisville, Kentucky. He had a happy childhood and family. During the...

William J. Twigger had a cousin his age. His cousin and his brother had joined the Marine Corps early in the war....

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox went through boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], and was...

After returning stateside, Adolph Wilson and a group of Marines drove from San Diego to Shreveport. They stopped at...

Meda Royce Hall and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Composite Squadron 68 (VC-68) aboard the USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70)]...

After the war ended, James Buckley got off the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-1013] five times. One was in San...

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

James Bollich had just gotten back from the movies when he heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Charles Wesley Borders was born in April 1922 in Kenedy, Texas. He was the third child of six. His father was a school...

Lyle Mitchell remembers there were some ships that would never be repaired [Annotator’s Note: he is referring to the...

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