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Raymond Urban was born in September 1920 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. They left there when he was young and moved around...

By the time he went overseas, Julian Trist Bringier McConnell did not have heavy ammunition. He spent most of his time...

Clark Wackerman was born in March 1926 in Brighton, New York, the oldest of three children. His father worked as a...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

Harry A. Donovan was assigned to a transport ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Leon (APA-48)] and trained for a month on...

Ellis Whaley is not sure about the timing, but either before he went to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa,...

In mid 1942, Jack Leaming and approximately 60 other prisoners of war, POWs, were transferred to a camp in Osaka. The...

Myron J. Carraway remembers Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Carraway was aboard the USS Hulbert (AVD-6) during the...

While Richard Greer and his fellow Marines were on Guadalcanal they were bombed almost constantly. They were hit at ten...

Harold Ward found out that the man on the other side of the headphones died about six years ago. Ward wore the...

Leo Denault flew from Hawaii to New Guinea. They went over in July 1944. They were on Biak [Annotator’s Note: Biak,...

Following the war's conclusion, Claude Taylor sailed aboard LSM-352 [Annotator's Note: LSM stands for Landing Ship,...

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