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O’Neil Ducharme’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was being assigned to guard duty at Shangri-La, known today...

William Hall was born in Denver, Colorado in July 1920. His family soon moved to Green River, Wyoming where his father...

Mervin Jensen was born in 1926 in Albert Lea, Minnesota. There were ten kids in the family. His mom and dad raised them...

Walter Bowsher was made mellow by World War 2. While he was a brig warden after the war, he found that he had empathy...

Lloyd Augustus Chamblin, Jr. knew most of the men in his squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 133...

James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...

After being discharged in August 1946, Harry McKnight went home and enrolled in the University of Ohio [Annotator's...

Richard Witaker landed on Red Beach 2 on Easter Sunday, April Fool's day of 1945 [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945]. The...

Dave Severance remembers some of the men, including Ira Hayes, John Bradley [Annotator's Note: John Henry Bradley, also...

Melvin C. Whitman had to figure out how to work with the Army when he landed on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

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