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Robert Lowe says war has its sadness. So many lost. It is always good to find some humor in a situation. That is what...

Jack Werner's worst experience in the war was not viewing dead bodies at Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Cleatus Lebow was born in 1924 in Happy, Texas. He grew up as one of 11 children during the Great Depression, but, as a...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm graduated from high school and turned 18, but had no thoughts about going to college or...

David Lamar Mealor was born in March 1923 in Newnan [Annotator’s Note: Newnan, Georgia]. He attended Newnan High School...

Harold Horseman was the historian for the Guadalcanal veterans. Horseman wrote about the same area and about the same...

George Colburn got a ten-day leave to go home after bootcamp. Two of his buddies were home at the same time. He then...

William J. Twigger joined the remnant of the division [Annotator's Note: he had originally been a member of Company F,...

Melvin Munch was introduced to the Navy in boot camp in San Diego. It was rough. Getting up early each morning to begin...

[Annotator’s Note: James Carrington enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1939 and spent two years in China...

When Charles Weskey Borders got to New Guinea it had not been secured. The worst time was when he was based at Noemfoor...

James Born installed water units that changed saltwater to fresh water for various buildings like barracks, bases, and...

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