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James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] slept under the elevated barracks [Annotator's Note: after...

While the Laffey was undergoing training on Chesapeake Bay some of the gunners were sent to Dam Neck, Virginia for...

After finishing 31 missions, James "Jim" Marshall laid around, went to the PX [Annotator's Note: post exchange], played...

Edward Riedl remembers that the Duck [Annotator's Note: DUKW; six-wheel-drive amphibious truck; also known as a Duck]...

Garland Bath was on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] near the battleship Tennessee [Annotator's Note: the...

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

Sam L. Miller reported aboard the USS Edgecombe (APA-164) in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California...

Salvador Guercia was born in February 1926 in Long Beach, Mississippi. He lived on his grandfather's farm until he was...

Robert Freligh served during the war because he felt it was his duty. He was also 20 years old at the time and thought...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

Starting in December 1943, John Smith was on New Guinea preparing for combat in the Admiralty Islands. They landed on...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. started his Navy service on 30 October 1942 at Columbia University [Annotator's Note: in...

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