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Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....

Thomas D. Thompson was observing a dogfight between a P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter...

Robert "Bob" Lowry and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-538] finally got beached and dropped out of the convoy [...

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

Melvin Munch would have been part of the invasion force for assaulting the Japanese home islands. The atomic bombs kept...

Edward Dunne went to England and then made Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France aboard the USS LST-53] as one...

After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

Neither Nicholas J. Zuras nor his crew were told about the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

Claude Larry Taylor was born in November 1926 in Sorrento, Louisiana. His father worked for the lumber industry moving...

They went to the South Pacific to the Solomons [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. The ship was pretty crowded.At Mare...

Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...

Robert D. Shaner was called up 1 July 1943 to go to a school in Flagstaff, Arizona, the Arizona State Teachers College...

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