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Irvin C. Klimas was in boot camp for six weeks. After boot camp, he had a ten day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Paul Rothenheber was excited to be back home. He smoked alot of cigarettes at the time. When he would go home, he gave...

William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one...

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

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

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

Joseph Brannan returned to New York with the PT-305 and two other boats on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank...

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

William Cassady was born in June 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family moved to New Orleans [Annotator’s Note...

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

Winfield Zerphey was based on the southern coast of England at Dunkeswell. The airmen lived in Quonset huts. They had...

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

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