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Curt Simmons served as a US Navy Armed Guard gunner aboard merchant ships. Even at the start of the war there were...

The invasion at Ormoc Bay was small and consisted mainly of destroyers and rocket firing landing craft.The Laffey [...

In the early part of 1944, Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] were put in a...

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmen aboard the USS LST-53] has no particular memory of D-Day [Annotator's Note: D...

Paul Rothenheber was never in direct action. He thought France was strange. He was knocked out in Le Havre [Annotator's...

William Leo Spaetgens was pulled out of the Navy Armed Guard in January 1945. Many men were removed from that service...

Joseph Hartmann was in the "52-20 club" [Annotator's Note: a government-funded program that paid unemployed veterans 20...

William Cassady thinks people should study the war because it will show how the United States got where they are now....

Theodore Vallas joined the Navy in 1939 when students in college were being prepared to go to the anticipated war....

Alois Kopp was aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) defending Java when the ship was sunk. He survived and was taken prisoner...

Bob Bartlett [Annotator's Note: assigned to USS Barnett (APA-5)], was up most of the night before the invasion of...

In the first days of June 1944, W. P. “Bill” Allen assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank]...

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