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When Claude Taylor turned 18, he enlisted in the Navy. His father had been in the Army in France in World War 1. The...

Richard Baile feels that it is important to teach young people about World War 2 but feels that teaching young people...

Richard Tempus Dixon was assigned to the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop YR-69, in...

William Wayne ran into a corpsman who was sitting with a guy who was wounded in the stomach. Wayne told them they could...

Paris Tognoli got out of high school and decided not to go to college. He got a job in a slaughterhouse, but he did not...

Selwyn Gilmore fit back in when he got home. He did not go to work right away. He regrets not going to college when it...

Charles Martin was at the hospital when the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945]. He found out that...

Kenneth Killilea left Maui and traveled by LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship Tank] to Saipan. The Japanese did not...

George N. Boutwell was born in July 1924 in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up with one older brother and a younger sister...

Howard Hart was a civilian internee along with his family at one of the two camps in Luzon established by the Japanese...

Harold Whitaker and a few friends went up to San Francisco in the summer of 1945 and joined the Merchant Marine. They...

Buck Donaldson remembers only one other sailor was in church on his first day in Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk,...

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