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When John H. Cole got home, he returned to the farm and realized it was not the way he would make his living. He tried...

Roger Shaw was born in New Orleans in 1921. He grew up and was educated in New Orleans. After graduating high school,...

For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...

Kenneth E. Stevens and his outfit were the first Marines to get into the Poway Valley [Annotator's Note: in Poway,...

At the 68th Field Hospital, Holly Rees was carried into a Quonset hut and laid on the floor, where he waited while more...

Floyd James Reissig was in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] when the war ended. When he got...

Clint Quirk was not assigned to a ship. [Annotator’s Note: Quirk was in the Merchant Marines]. He went into the union...

In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

On 1 July 1943, Louis Burg [Annotator’s Note: who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942] was ordered to active duty and...

Edward Bruce Jennings never saw so many planes bombing a place. The naval bombardment was terrible as well. They could...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Edmond Guidry wanted to kill the Japanese for what they did. When the war ended, the United States still did not trust...

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