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Clem Thrift was born in January 1927 in Thomasville, North Carolina. He never knew his father, who died in an accident...

Alfred Raymond Mosher lost about 30 or 40 pounds while he was a prisoner. Mosher remained in the Navy for an additional...

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

Fermer Kellogg was born in April 1925. He was born, raised and resides in Burbank, California. His family made...

Karr grew up in West Virginia in a little town called Mannington. His father and his relatives worked in the oil fields...

Richard Tempus Dixon's time in the Philippines was interesting. Some of the natives got hold of some hand grenades and...

In the fall of 1944, Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the Hawaiian Islands and arrived at Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll...

When he was on shore leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in occupied Japan,...

George Joseph Bertucci wanted to improve his education after the military. He received his GED and then went to air...

Thomas Tizzard decided to separate having survived two ships being torpedoed. He had had enough combat. Once on Guam,...

When Jack D. Owen was discharged, he was required to give a urine sample to make sure he had no medical problems. All...

There were a lot of events that did not make a lasting impression on Crain. He cannot recall the troops he brought in...

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