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After the war ended, Virginia Wilterdink had enough of the island climate, and elected to work on the hospital ship USS...

Jump school training was intense for Jacques Brewster Smith. He did a lot of running and swinging exercise. He was...

Those with dysentery didn't live very long. Dehydration, lack of food, lack of water, the sickness, it was awful....

Aloysius "Al" Arend was born in Chicago, Illinois in November 1925. He grew up and spent much of his life in nearby...

Fred Wesighan enlisted in the Army after he graduated in high school because he "did not like people kicking around our...

Paul Kerchum was born in January 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio. His father was a Russian immigrant and his mother his mother...

Trinidad Ledesma was tired and had jungle worms, so he decided not to reenlist. He was at a hospital and quarantined...

Jerome Paul DiFulco was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1921. He grew up there during the hard times of the...

Vernon Henry Moret boarded a plane on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] to rejoin his unit [...

Edward F. Kent and his glider unit landed near a German outpost in Le Muy, France. Kent and his unit [Annotator’s Note...

Burton Johnson had been in the service for three years when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: on...

Earl Dean Browning had no problems becoming a civilian. You have to make up your mind. His was that he was going to go...

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