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Windom Joseph Burton was an aviation metalsmith 1st class when he was discharged. He might have received a promotion to...

Roy Boreen felt that World War 2 did not change his values in life although the war did have an impact on his life...

Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...

Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great...

John "Jack" Raquepau got married about a week after George Bush [Annotator's Note: George H. W. Bush, 41st President of...

Black hoods were placed on the heads of William Leibold and the others [Annotator's Note: the other survivors of the...

Harold Zeringer returned to New Orleans in March 1946 and embarked on a concentrated law school effort. He took three...

By 1944 Harold Ward had added some stripes to his arm. Ward was transferred to an AK ship, a big liberty ship [...

Edward Chinnis enlisted in the Navy on 11 November [Annotator's Note: 11 November 1942] in Raleigh, North Carolina then...

William Sturman and a buddy liked the Navy and just picked it to join. He wanted to see the ocean. He was old enough to...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...

William O’Brien was born in Dubuque, Iowa in June 1918. His real father passed away when he was four months old. His...

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