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Leisey was told before he deployed that he was going to go to Officer Candidate School, yet that never developed. He...

Throughout summer of 1945, the Belleau Wood [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)] began launching its planes...

Louis Conter and the VP-11 [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 11] Catalinas [Annotator's Note: Consolidated PBY...

[Annotator's Note: Harold DeForest served in the Army as a gunner on a 60mm mortar in Company A, 1st Battalion, 129th...

Davis Gordon Mayes was born in February 1919 in Pontotoc, Texas. During his service in World War 2, he served on the...

John Edward Campbell’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was machine guns waking him up during Pearl Harbor [...

David Thomason was born in October 1925. He had four brothers and grew up on a farm outside of Fountain Inn [Annotator'...

Camp Bowie [Annotator's Note: in Brownwood, Texas] was a major camp that could handle several regiments. At the same...

Despite being on another small ship, F. Lincoln Grahlfs was happy to be on an auxiliary ship and not a fighting vessel...

Wanda Damberg and her fellow internees witnessed three young men from their group attempt an escape [Annotator’s Note:...

[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Peleliu.] Normally, the...

Mahlen Arledge fought on Peleliu independently of the Marines who were at a stage of moving off the island and turning...

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