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There would be holes in the line where there were not enough men [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1...

Shows were important to George Colburn. Eddie Bracken [Annotator's Note: Edward Vincent Bracken, American entertainer]...

Thomas Kolesa and his wife were able to get a place to live in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] that...

Jack Houston and a buddy who had been cut by a bayonet stayed in their hole for a while. Houston had a buddy named Joe...

The guys at Midway knew that the Navy was out there but not where they were. Sumner Whitten was at Midway when an SBD [...

Jimmie Dyer went through infantry training at Camp Pendleton, California. When he landed at Guadalcanal, where the 6th...

Steve McMurray related that by the time an attacking unit reached its objective on the heights of Iwo Jima, its force...

The South [Annotator's Note: the Southern states in the United States] was poor and the Northern states were better off...

Gerald West spent 1944 in an OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, the pre-runner of the CIA] training...

Carrol Smith did occupation duty in Nagasaki, Japan. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese...

Chuck feels that a lot of veterans have embellished their prisoner of war experience. He felt as if it was not that bad...

Charles Brooks was sent to Corpus Christie, Texas as a night flight instructor. [Annotator's Note: Brooks was a TBF...

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