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Walter Groth [Annotator’s Note: stationed in the Philippines] provided fire support in the beginning. Then they were...

Cecil Ezell McLain was aboard the battleship [Annotator's Note: USS Tennessee (BB-43)] when it bombarded and took Kiska...

Chuck feels that a lot of veterans have embellished their prisoner of war experience. He felt as if it was not that bad...

Benjamin Hagans enjoyed fishing. He did not wear clothes until he was six years old. He would climb trees and gather...

Virginia Wilterdink was born near the Canadian border in Woodland, Maine in October 1922. She was one of five children...

He walked to school and joined the "Junior Yanks" which was a program for kids run by World War 1 veterans. They met...

Alvin von Frisch was sent to Camp Croft [Annotator's Note: in Spartanburg, South Carolina; now Croft State Park] for...

For the invasion of Peleliu, Charles Womack and the other Marines transferred off the ship into amtracs [Annotator's...

When Julian Trist Bringier McConnell left the bigger ship that took him overseas, he patrolled mountainous islands and...

Bailey continued on. After he passed Naha [Annotators Note: May 1945, Naha, Okinawa] he encountered civilians for the...

When the war ended, William Goldsborough didn't have enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was devised based...

[Annotator's Note: Rattling dishes can be heard in the background.] Byron Herbert Meader was sent to Camp Shelby [...

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