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Arthur L. Eads [Annotator's Note: as a 1st class shipfitter for the 133rd Naval Construction Battalion] was stationed...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade was sent to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. By this time, it was near the end...

Joseph Townsend was being trained as a radioman and radio technician. They wanted him to become an aviation technician...

Robert L. Rorschach was a member of the radar crew on the Pickaway [Annotator's Note: USS Pickaway (APA-222)] which was...

Gerald Wayne Lux joined the service to give the Japanese what they had coming to them after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

The 3rd Marine Division was loaded up and brought to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan on 22 February 1945...

John St. Germain was wounded while advancing up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19...

Floyd James Reissig was drafted in May 1944. He was allowed to choose his service after his physical. He was not...

George Morgan was tasked at Iwo Jima to swim to a peninsula in the island and place a battery operated light on it. It...

One night, Floyd James Reissig called general quarters while sailors were sleeping on the deck. There was an...

Joseph LaNier had no training or explanation concerning how to perform as a Seabee [Annotator’s Note: Seabee is a twist...

[Annotator's Note: David Thomason served in the Navy aboard the destroyer USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733).] They went...

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