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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...

Harold Beal did not want to stay in the Navy. He had PTSD [Annotator's Note: post-traumatic stress disorder; a mental...

Irvin C. Klimas' interest was in college, and he applied to a few colleges. He was accepted at Carnegie Tech [Annotator...

Charles Taylor was assigned to the USS Absecon (AVP-23) as the catapult officer. His job was to make sure the plane was...

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

Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] arrived at the beaches far enough away to see what was...

Theodore Vallas left the Navy after the war in order to play professional sports. He enrolled in college to play...

Alois Kopp returned from the war in a mood to celebrate. He ate and drank far too much and was advised by his father to...

Edward Dunne was born in October 1924 in Winsted, Connecticut. He got remarried after his first wife died and he moved...

Joseph R. Romano used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

Leon Schafer reported to CINPAC [Annotator's Note: Commander-in-Chief Pacific; US Navy Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz...

William Cassady remembers Saipan [Annotator’s Note: Battle of Saipan, Mariana Islands; 15 June to 9 July 1944] was...

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