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Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

Robert Martin went to Europe [Annotator's Note: on the USS LST-515]. The first place they went to was [Annotator's Note...

Charles Walker was born on a farm near Sumner, Georgia. When you live on a farm family, everybody works. He did not...

The first ship Curt Simmons served aboard was the old Panamanian flagged ship El Murante [Annotator's Note: unsure of...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

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...

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

William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

Milton Meulder explained how George C. Marshall, as an aide to General John J. Pershing during The Great War [Annotator...

Robert "Bob" Lowry was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in August 1926. He had three...

After several months of training, Ernest Barber was sent to Charleston, South Carolina and assigned to the USAHS [...

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