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John Nicholas was born in Marysville, Michigan in December 1924. He grew up in Marysville with his half brother and...

Clint Quirk tried to get into the Navy, but he needed seaman papers. The longshoremen told him to go to the Army...

James Oney was in Portland, Oregon after leaving his family farm in the middle of the summer [Annotator's Note: Summer...

Raymond Urban was born in September 1920 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. They left there when he was young and moved around...

From there [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] they returned to Pearl Harbor. There, James Allen joined the Silversides [...

When Julian Trist Bringier McConnell was leaving Panama for the Pacific, his PT Boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo...

William Jackson returned to the United States in the latter part of 1946. He lived with his mother and dad and later...

Rudolph C. Miller loved the Marines aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Fond du Lac (APA-166)]. They were very...

Abraham Rosenzweig was born in Chicago, Illinois in January 1924 and grew up there. He had three sisters named Shirley...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

After the war ended, Ernest Cowell was sent to Korea [Annotator's Note: with the 20th Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

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