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Harry McKnight was not smart enough to be afraid until he heard shells firing for the first time. It took time for him...

Ervin Markwald [Annotator’s Note: drafted into the Army at age 18] did 17 weeks of basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas...

Paul Harless was born in Corryton, Tennessee in December 1921. His father worked in various jobs during the Great...

Teddy [Annotator's Note: Lieutenant Theodore "Teddy" Keller, Gravois' future brother-in-law] and Gravois trained in New...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Addison served in the USMC as a mortar man in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] After Bloody...

Ray Gene Gresham was born in July 1927 in Lawrence County, Illinois, the last of the six children of a farmer. After...

Louis J. Armentaro thinks that maybe he could have gotten someone killed, but he had to have his sense of decency....

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the invasions of the Marshall and Gilbert...

Paul J. Murphy [Annotator’s Note: a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] sailed to San Francisco [...

When activity became concentrated at Guadalcanal, they [Annotator's Note: James Morehead and the rest of the 8th...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] and her...

Fred Gemmel [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 2nd Class assigned to the USS Laffey (DD-724)] headed to the Philippines,...

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