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Nevin Sledge had 319 pilots in his graduating class in Corpus [Annotator’s Note: Corpus Christi, Texas]. They were...

In 1940, Randall Edwards boarded the submarine tender USS Canopus (AS-9) in Tsingtao, China. The Canopus was a "mother...

William O’Brien was the second officer to the skipper. They had a cook, a quartermaster, three machinist mates, three...

Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Battle of Kwajalein, 31 January to 3 February 1944] D-Day [Annotator's Note: military...

Garland Miller Gallaspy [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 161st Parachute Engineer Battalion, 503rd Parachute...

William Stewart was sent to Washington state to work on the radar in flying box cars. He made corporal as an auto...

Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Francis John "Dick" Varone had not spoken much about his wartime experiences until he joined a group of other veterans...

Crump had enrolled as a draftsman in the local aircraft plant but in the meantime several of the shipyards had posted...

Paul Fair was assigned to the Heavy Weapons Headquarters Company in the 6th Infantry Division. They were supposed to...

Henry Bourgeois' first air to air combat was over Bougainville. When the dive bombers went into their dive, the entire...

Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] was cold. At night on the northern end of the island, Louis R. Lepore...

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