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Bruno S. Rinas remained at the smaller landing strip for a week while he fixed the plane [Annotator's Note: a Seversky...

Jump school training was intense for Jacques Brewster Smith. He did a lot of running and swinging exercise. He was...

Fiske Hanley was born in January 1920 in Brownwood, Texas, one of the five children in his family. Although he grew up...

Edgar Harrell had very little energy and was just hoping for someone to discover him [Annotator's Note: while floating...

William Pierce was in Parris Island boot camp for eight weeks. He did what he was told and experienced the rigors of...

Edward Bale witnessed attacks by Japanese troops who were inebriated. He learned to like the Japanese after the war...

Victor K. Carman joined the Navy because he did not want to be a foot soldier in the Army or Marines. He had flown a...

Edward Riedl remembers that Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] was different than Leyte [Annotator's Note:...

A day after William Garbo and his machine gun squad successfully ambushed a group of Japanese soldiers in a mountain...

Kenneth Wieland was born in Fisher, Minnesota September 1926. He grew up there. [Annotator's Note: Someone enters the...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a member of Signal Corps Aircraft Warning, 5th Interceptor Command,...

The SS Lurline, on which Virginia Wilterdink was traveling, stopped in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands]...

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