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Adolph Wilson and his battalion of the Marine Paratroopers arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia. They had been preceded by...

Jacob Velfling, Jr.'s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was at a farm behind enemy lines. He met two...

Soon after the Battle of the Philippines, Murphy Burke remembers spending a week at one of the larger ports, Ulithi....

Dale Smith was assigned to the USS Proteus (AS-19), a submarine repair and supply ship. It was big and had about 800...

Hubert L. Puckett was born in Newton, Mississippi in May 1919. He moved to Dekalb, Mississippi with this family when he...

John Bradley and his mother moved to the United States in 1949 [Annotator's Note: they were liberated 3 February 1945,...

Earnest then had to make a decision, he was already a 2nd lieutenant in the Army but he was not sure if he wanted to be...

James Oney was scared when bombs were falling [Annotator's Note: during air raids on Stirling Island, Treasury Islands...

Robert Addison joined the United States Marine Corps on 7 January 1942. He spent three weeks at Parris Island and then...

The military taught Richard Baile discipline. It also gave him another education. The combination of his college...

Joseph Townsend started to lose his teeth in 1955. The dentist told him that all his teeth were cracked at the ridge....

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