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Fulton Taylor used the GI Bill to help pay his tuition for college. He graduated from Louisiana State University in...

Paul J. Murphy got into the water which was covered with oil and black tar [Annotator’s Note: he had just abandoned the...

Crumps dad was making 90 cents an hour. A dime was a big difference in those days. Gasoline was 10 cents a gallon and a...

Earnest was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was born on April 1st, 1917. HIs father was in the Light Infantry Blue,...

When they [Annotators Note: James Smith and the rest of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] went back to New Zealand, they...

Leon Williamson was transferred back to the United States and was sent to Cherry Point [Annotator's Note: Marine Air...

James Oney and his outfit [Annotator's Note: ACORN 12; Aviation, Construction, Ordnance, Repair 12] loaded all of their...

Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...

John H. Cole looked up and saw a bomb coming toward him [Annotator's Note: while on Okinawa, Japan]. It tumbled to the...

Adolfo V. Celaya went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. The training was difficult...

When Mervin Jensen received his draft notice, he thought everyone else had to go so he would to. He went to Fort...

David Harvey would be assigned liberty depending on what side of the ship he was on, port or starboard. Passes were...

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