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After World War 2, Sam S. McKeel was assigned as quartermaster on LST-492 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank]. He...

DeMers was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin on March 3rd, 1915. He had 6 brothers and 6 sisters. All 13 lived to be to...

In Harold DeForest's platoon there were two squads of machine guns and three squads of mortars. There were about 12 men...

After the war ended, Harry Walker Wellford and his crewmates enjoyed watching movies on the fantail [Annotator's Note:...

Anna McCalla Noren wrote to her boyfriend, Carl Noren, to occupy time. She had met him when she first arrived at Fort...

Marvin Tyson served because he would serve his country any time and was drafted. He doubts he would have served if not...

Harold Whitaker does not believe that the story of the veterans of World War 2 has not really been told. He also...

William Lansford took part in the Long Patrol with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on Guadalcanal. Most of the time he...

The 3rd Marine Division was loaded up and brought to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan on 22 February 1945...

Walter Knapps was a Marine Corps security guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning...

Leo V. Strausbaugh was a captain in charge of B Company of the 6th Ranger Battalion [Annotator's Note: Company B, 6th...

Vernon Micheel flew the second attack flight against the Japanese [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Scouting Squadron 6...

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