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

After graduating from radio school, James "Jim" Marshall was sent to Salina, Kansas [Annotator's Note: Smoky Hill Army...

Henry Ratcliff was born in January 1923 in Columbia, Louisiana. He had five brothers. He grew up in the area of...

Howard Robert Charles was inducted into the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in June 1940] in San Diego [Annotator's...

James Billingsley was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in November 1923. He remembers the Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

James Gulotta was training to hit Tokyo when the war ended. His unit was to land near Yokohama but the war ended before...

Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

Harry Walker Wellford felt queasy much of the time on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)]. He often...

Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

George Hamilton was assigned to a skeleton crew aboard the USS Orleck (DD-886) in Norfolk, Virginia when he first heard...

[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a radioman and rifleman in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] They...

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