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It was amazing to Harold Ward to see how quickly they dumped stuff after the war was over. They were heading back to...

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson [Annotator's Note: a radioman on the USS Balao (SS-285) enjoyed free time at Brisbane [Annotator's...

Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was born in September 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked at the Roosevelt...

Noah Lewis was drafted and inducted into the Navy in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was examined by military doctors and then...

MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area] went...

Walter John Guyote was born in St. Mary Parish [Annotator’s Note: St. Mary Parish, Louisiana] in July 1925. He had...

William C. Ellzey joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in May 1941] and trained as a hospital corpsman in Portsmouth,...

Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called...

Philip Curran does not know what he thought [Annotator's Note: about the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on...

Melvin Munch was introduced to the Navy in boot camp in San Diego. It was rough. Getting up early each morning to begin...

Wilbur Rogers likes to tell a story about a pigeon. [Annotator's Note: Rogers grins briefly.] After the invasion of the...

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