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Ernest Barber was born in September 1924 in rural Mississippi with three brothers and one sister while his father...

Jack Madden was born in Troy, New York in 1924. He is a lifetime resident of Troy. Troy was a good town in which to...

Joseph Hartmann was shipped back to England. They were going to be court-martialed and do their time in England. The...

Theodore Vallas was born in March 1921 in a small town in Idaho [Annotator's Note: Pocatello, Idaho]. His father died...

John Edmund Murman, assigned to the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103), left Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Joseph Brannan returned to Melville, Rhode Island as a PT boat instructor [Annotator's Note: at the Motor Torpedo Boat...

Bob Bartlett graduated from Navy boot camp and then attended corpsman [Annotator's Note: enlisted medical specialist in...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] They...

W. P. “Bill” Allen was a Navy medic assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank]. He developed...

Alois Kopp and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] left Saigon on a boozy flight to Calcutta. The POWs...

Robert Martin got his tattoo when he was on a ship with three other guys. They were in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston...

There were a lot of submarine threats on Nicholas J. Zuras' transatlantic journey to Plymouth, England, where he stayed...

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