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After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], Merle Jerome "Jerry" Pettis was sent to Oregon. They did not get...

Rex James Bates was born in November 1923 in Seattle, Washington. His father served as a drummer in the Navy during...

James J. Hill was with 12 others [Annotator's Note: of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 (VMF-214)] over Rabaul [Annotator's...

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

Robert Leese was born in February 1923 in Manheim, Pennsylvania, one of six siblings. When he was four years old, the...

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

Robert Perry did his Navy boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. He was then sent to...

Robert Brant wanted to be transferred to new duties on an escort ship going to the Philippines after spending 11 months...

Walter Bowsher was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: after his liberation from a prisoner of war camp in Japan] where he...

After returning from his leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], James W. Metcalf...

Shortly before his 19th birthday, Frank Pantuso met Sergeant Tatonetti [Annotator's Note: no given name provided] and...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine was born in July 1927 in Baguio, Philippines [Annotator's Note: Baguio, Luzon,...

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