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Joseph Townsend joined the service because his aunt who was a Marine convinced him to join. He is military-oriented and...

David Thomason loved it [Annotator's Note: Navy boot camp] and worked hard. He went home on leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Frank V. Tarkington joined the Indiana National Guard, but was kicked out because it came to light that he was too...

John Nicholas was born in Marysville, Michigan in December 1924. He grew up in Marysville with his half brother and...

Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....

Most of the time, they got along with the Filipinos. Stinson notes that any foreigner who comes in and occupies another...

Robert Brant and his ship made it to Kyushu, Japan after hitting a typhoon in the Pacific. Brant recalled having ill...

Hopkins grew up on a small farm in Georgia. It was a tenant farm. Hopkins father was farming a piece of property that...

William Beaman thinks young people should be taught the history of World War 2, and believes it is important that there...

When the 12 ships in his squadron hit Diamondhead [Annotator's Note: the volcanic crater on Oahu, Hawaii], 6 went south...

Francis Bucher was born in October 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His was a friendly neighborhood where everybody knew...

The Medusa [Annotator's Note: USS Medusa (AR-1)] was not far from them [Annotators Note: during the attack on Pearl...

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