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Jeremiah “Jerry” O’Keefe found training intense. After preflight school at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

When hostilities ended, Irwin Schneider was sent up to the Philippine Islands. It was in the Philippines that he was...

Mahlen Arledge grew up as a result of World War 2. He understood what life meant. When he went into the service, he...

Charles “Chuck” Wisher reached the Philippines [Annotator’s Note: as a crewman on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very...

William Winter would go out with the patrols to round up Japanese soldiers. They had an airplane and would go pick...

On 13 January 1944, Steve McMurray left on a troop transport ship and was amazed at the clear blue water of the Pacific...

Alvin von Frisch was sent to Camp Croft [Annotator's Note: in Spartanburg, South Carolina; now Croft State Park] for...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

James Shelton Scales was the battalion executive officer of the 1st Battalion [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 23...

The operation on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau] was supposed to be in conjunction with the offensive...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior could not initially enter Navy flight school because of the number of new potential...

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