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

James was born in North Texas in Aberdene. The town is no longer there. He lived there until he was 10 years old. His...

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

Running is in Ernest "Ernie" Andrus' nature. He has been a runner most of his life. He ran his first 200 mile relay...

On 18 August 1944, Frederick Grun left the United States on the HMS Empire Mace along with 200 enlisted men, a number...

Life aboard ship was just something Charles Bishop and his fellow sailors adjusted to. They worked four hours on and...

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

Austin H. Kiplinger experienced friendly fire in the Fall of 1944 [Annotator's Note: as a pilot with Composite...

Lowell Rodrigue had many dreams about World War 2 and cannot watch movies related to the war. He has been clinically...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

Edgar Eugene "Gene" Fricker had his boot camp training in San Diego, California. Even though he was in the Navy, he was...

Before the Marines landed on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) bombarded the...

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