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David Thomason used the G.I. Bill in 1950 after having just gotten married. He went back to farming several acres of...

Jack D. Owen was inducted into the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in 1944] in Tyler, Texas, and then boarded a train to San...

Patrick Zilliacus was born in May 1926 in Helsinki, Finland. Life growing up was fantastic. His parents divorced when...

Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: Assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker] arrived in Pearl Harbor [...

The planes all arrived about the same time. They then steamed north.The men knew that the Japanese had sent an armada...

Austin H. Kiplinger went to Anacostia Naval Air Station [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Anacostia...

James Born installed water units that changed saltwater to fresh water for various buildings like barracks, bases, and...

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

Jake Ussery boarded the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] in the United States and joined in operations...

Harold Joslin joined the Navy around 1939. He liked the idea of going to sea. He also really wanted to get off the farm...

Elmer Koenig was born in July 1925 in Santa Ana, California. His older sister died in 1918. He grew up in Orange [...

While Martin Suter was on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], there were still a lot of Japanese troops on...

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