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[Annotator's Note: Leslie B. Mason, Junior served in the Army as a guard at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan prior to the...

Pete Brock was born in April 1926 in Columbia, South Carolina. He grew up with a twin brother and two sisters. His...

Frank George Memory went through boot camp in San Diego [Annotators’ Note: San Diego, California] and was assigned to...

Patrick Zilliacus thinks that the variety of odd jobs he held before being drafted helped him in duties on a submarine...

Fiske Hanley II was born in January 1920 in Brownwood, Texas. The Hanley family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, then...

Norman Sterrie thought Hawaii was a nice experience for a man from the mid-west [Annotator's Note: Sterrie was from St...

Trinidad Ledesma received orders to ship out from Fort Ord [Annotator's Note: in California] at around three or four o'...

On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotators Note: 15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the...

Donald Herbert Shown was with a doctor, chaplain and Marine captain who swam around trying to take care of the wounded...

Harold Rosen took part in a simulation that was supposed to help them get ready for their next invasion. He recalls...

William Barnes was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After high school he attended Bowling Green Business...

John E. Johnson went back to the ship, but not all his crewmates did. After replacements came from a nearby receiving...

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