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Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was assigned to the USS Guam (CB-2) as a fireman in June 1944. His crew got along well together...

Paul Sparacino [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5) during Operation Dominic, series of...

Edward Bale and his Marine Corps Medium Tank Company [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Corps Tank Battalion (medium)]...

Walter Bowsher joined the Marines and went to boot camp in San Diego. He attended sea school there and then was...

Returning to discuss his other assignments all over the globe, John McGlohon conceded that the Aleutian Islands was not...

Carroll Harris was born in January 1922 in Rockport, Mississippi and went into the service at 20 years old. After...

James witnessed one of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll after the war. That is how he realized how the war really...

[Annotator’s Note: The sound is choppy in this segment.] When Edwin Sedran landed on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian,...

Norman Elliott and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Pasadena (CL-65)] saw some action while in the Pacific. They had...

Richard Keller received a Distinguished Service Cross but he does not think he deserved it. While recovering in the...

Ira Schilling and his outfit of assault engineers landed in the third wave during the invasion of Saipan. They landed...

Jimmie Dyer went through infantry training at Camp Pendleton, California. When he landed at Guadalcanal, where the 6th...

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