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Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

When James Bollich ran out of food, he started hunting. He was using World War 1 era ammunition. One day while hunting...

Alfred Dearman was born in June 1930 in Abilene, Texas. He was an orphan who was adopted at three days old by an older...

Albert G. Sutcliffe and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division...

About a month before the Battle of Midway the skipper decided to assign crews. The chief radioman asked if anyone had a...

Richard Greer saw a few Red Cross things and the show Bob Hope was in on Pavuvu. He only watched for a little while...

Robert Powers never saw his comrade who was captured again. He knew that if he were captured he would be killed. If...

Before being shipped out as a replacement to the Pacific, Robert Leroy Shirkey was put on guard duty at the wharves in...

Vaughn Whitworth remembers celebrating V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945]. He felt that...

Adolph William Amundson was born in November 1923 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He lived in a small town, but there...

Richard Higgins joined the Marine Corps in 1940. He was set on the Marine Corps from the beginning. He never considered...

At the end of the war, James Thomas Womack was in the process of being transferred off the USS Rehobath (AVP-50) to...

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