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Oscar Culp was able to write home during the time of his military service. The cost of postage has risen sharply over...

Making her way alone, Virginia Wilterdink arrived at Camp Devens in Massachusetts to begin her military career. She met...

John Bradley [Annotator's Note: born in Manila, Philippines to an American father and Australian mother in 1936] cannot...

Cecil Ezell McLain stopped in Singapore before heading home and witnessed five people die and several people blinded by...

William O’Brien remembers serving at the Panama Canal [Annotator's Note: a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific...

Jake Ussery boarded the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] in the United States and joined in operations...

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

Jack Dunlavy came back for Navy Day [Annotator's Note: 27 October 1945]. He thought he wanted to stay in the Navy but...

On the 1 April [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1942] they passed under the Golden Gate Bridge. The men were all excited...

Milton Rackham was born in Riggs, Idaho in April 1925 and grew up in nearby Rigby. [Annotator’s Note: Internet...

Michael Maziarczyk remembers the Navy starting the bombardment at four in the morning. They made a hospital on the...

Around the time Paul Dietzel flew his first mission, General Curtis LeMay had gone to the Pacific to take over the 20th...

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