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James Buckley's LST [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-1013, a Landing Ship, Tank] had 40mm [Annotator's Note: Bofors 40mm...

Clyde Barber was born in May 1924 in Drennan, Colorado. Each of his five brothers and one sister were born in different...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

After the clean-up of Pearl Harbor, John Cassidy chose to stay in the Pacific on the USS Vincennes (CA-44) which...

[Annotator's Note: Floyd Annas rotated home from Clark Field, now Clark Air Base, Luzon, Philippines.] He stayed in the...

Connick recalls having great respect for the Marines they picked up at Iwo Jima. He watched them fight, seeing the...

Robert Hammond was sent to Great Lakes, Illinois in the dead of winter for boot camp. He was prepared for the cold, but...

Clarence Robert Duff remarked on the times when they interacted with Japanese pilots. Duff remembered they came across...

Stanley Fagerstrom was a corporal going into an outfit that was already established in combat. He was attached to...

Archie Kelley admired Rickover [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Hyman G. Rickover; nicknamed Father of the Nuclear...

The American prisoners were rounded up on Monkey Point [Annotators Note: American servicemen captured by the Japanese...

Allen Ray Sibley came home and reenlisted. On Guam [Annotator's Note: Second Battle of Guam, 21 July to 10 August 1944...

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