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Assigned to the commissioning crew of the USS Flasher (SS-249), William Beaman went back to Groton, Connecticut to...

Edward Bruce Jennings never saw so many planes bombing a place. The naval bombardment was terrible as well. They could...

Samuel Malta and his company [Annotator's Note: Anti-Tank Company, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division] in...

Jacques Brewster Smith says Elmer Fryar [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] was the company [Annotator's Note:...

James Nerison was sent home because it was his turn. After a year, men in his outfit were sent home for a 30 day...

John Wicklund says the most effective weapon the infantry used was the Browning Automatic Rifle [Annotator's Note: BAR...

Gene Alair went in and out of Guadalcanal many times. Nothing really stands out to him about it other than he lost a...

Peter "Pete" Behr's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the landing at Leyte [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

A day after William Garbo and his machine gun squad successfully ambushed a group of Japanese soldiers in a mountain...

Louise Settles worked in personnel, mostly making assignments. She had never left the United States before the Army....

Retracing his steps, Ogden Saik recalls that he was in high school and hanging around with the guys in the neighborhood...

Robert D. Shaner came into New Guinea and his ship, the LST-475 [Annotator's Note: USS LST-475], was not there so he...

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