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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...

Gerald Wayne Lux served in the United States Navy in the Pacific and made it to Australia and Japan. He volunteered for...

After boot camp, Richard Nummer returned home for only one day before he returned to San Diego. Some trainees went AWOL...

Gene Alair's most memorable experience of the war was being back on board the USS Astoria (CA-34), below decks...

While overseas, Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little...

Russell Gackenbach said that he would be part of the atomic bomb mission again if he was asked to do it. We were at war...

William Lutz hear about the Japanese torturing the Americans. When he returned home, he read about the atrocities...

Harvey Lee Bishop was born in August 1923. He was a P-51 Mustang [Annotator’s Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter...

Leanne Blinzler Noe [Annotator's note: a child internee at Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment Camp,...

As first scout, John Wicklund carried a Thompson submachine gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun...

Oscar Culp performed much civic work for the city of Oceanside [Annotator's Note: Oceanside, California]. [Annotator's...

While off Okinawa, the USS Wisconsin [Annotator’s Note: USS Wisconsin BB-64] picked up some British POWs, which were...

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