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Clayton Fisher spent the next two and a half years in the training command. Once, Fisher was chasing fighters and...

The Army had not yet finished on Leyte because of bad weather, and Clem Thrift said that in the process of readying to...

One morning, Richard Thelen saw a plane fly over him and he knew that he was about to be rescued [Annotator's Note: USS...

Frank George Memory was a crewman on a submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Gato (SS-212)]. The boat was about 300 feet...

Robert D. Shaner had some exciting times aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-475]. They had gotten back from...

Paul Sparacino's father was in the Army [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] but did not really talk about it....

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

Joseph LaNier tells others to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself. He rose to be vice-president of...

Harper Gruber found boot camp very rough, but very beneficial in terms of his physical conditioning. After school, his...

Thomas Tizzard says that his most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard to pin down. It could be the first time...

Vernon Micheel attacked a Japanese cruiser on the last day of the battle [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Scouting...

The ship that the Laffey relieved had been there a week and never got hit. They got off of the coast of Okinawa on a...

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