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Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...

Anthony Bianconi was born in September 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio. When he was quite young, his family moved to Mount...

Gerald Rupert was discharged from Bainbridge [Annotator's Note: he was discharged in fall 1946 at Bainbridge Naval...

William Cassady went to Chicago [Annotator’s Note: Chicago, Illinois] by train. Then he went on to Great Lakes [...

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Robert Martin was transferred to the USS LST-515. It was a smaller ship than the USS Donner (LSD-20). He did not like...

Leon Schafer has been to Europe a number of times since 68 [Annotator's Note: 1968] when all of his family went. His...

Solis “Sol” Kaslow was born in 1925 [Annotator’s Note: he grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. His father worked on...

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 [...

Fred Arthur Balfour [Annotator's Note: with SHAEF – Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] was building huts...

Floyd Stahl was born in October 1924 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He grew up on a farm near Alto, Michigan. He was the...

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