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Murphy Burke made good, lasting friendships while in the Navy, and when he got out, he took advantage of the G.I. Bill...

After Hershel Hibbard was discharged from the Navy, he completed high school and went to college for some time on the G...

Howard Robert Charles was part of the prisoner of war force that worked 14 months on building the Burma Railroad from...

The closer Carey Suratt got to Japan, the more aggressive things became. On his second trip to Leyte, the 459 [...

James Connelly made landings on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal Campaign, 7 August 1942 to 9 February 1943;...

When Edward Chinnis reported aboard the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Dorchester (APB-46)], there was a third class...

Martin Carmody took a course that would be parallel to the island. He made a good landing in the ocean but the force of...

Loren Bennett stayed out at sea for about two or three months after the war was over. He was ready to get out of the...

Gene Alair was aboard the USS Astoria (CA-34) during the battle of Guadalcanal. Saipan was a big operation [Annotator’s...

William Roy [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5) as the aircraft carrier's photographer] left Pearl Harbor...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt worked in an art studio for an artist. He made picture frames and sometimes was used as a model....

James "Jimmy" Elam Newsom was born in Oakland, Louisiana in 1921. He grew up and lived in Louisiana until the war...

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