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Richard Keller and the rest of the 37th Division took part in the Louisiana Maneuvers. They were bused into the area...

Mahlen Arledge experienced his first combat on Angaur. He had no idea what to expect in combat. The first night on the...

William J. Twigger's duty [Annotator's Note: with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 29th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division]...

In Norfolk, Claude Shannahan met a WAVE [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service] girl during...

Charles Wesley Borders was up at the north end of Luzon [Annotator's Note: Luzon, Philippines] just before the invasion...

George Joseph Sullivan was on a ship gun crew. When he would be sitting off the beach, he would ask to go ashore. Once...

William Darling was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1925. He always wanted to be in the military. He wanted to go to...

Besides the flag raising, Dave Severance's most vivid memory was the loss of troops. They knew that the Japanese were...

Dale LeBlanc had been through Naha many times as a runner. Every time he went through there snipers would shoot at him...

Lester Caplan's decision to serve in World War 2 came out of his belief that it was a legitimate war, and America was...

Chuck was born in Long Island, New York in 1917. He believes that things were going better during the Great Depression...

Paul A. Franklin was born in in February 1922 in Elm Grove, Louisiana. He was raised during the Great Depression [...

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