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Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

After World War 2, Joseph Daquana took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Keith Renstrom and Amagony [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling; on Iwo Jima] looked at each other and gave each other...

John McGlohon said that his time in the service was the best thing that ever happened to him, and he thinks that, "...

Fulton Taylor chose the United States Navy because service there appealed to him. His older brother was already in the...

John Caudle has had a lot of thoughts over the years. Especially when he came home out of the service and did not have...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] and her...

Emil Kesselman went through boot camp in Samson, New York [Annotator’s Note: after enlisting in the US Navy in November...

Walter Bowsher worked on an effort called the Mount Fuji Project which was supposedly building a children's playground...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was on USS LST-124 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank] until just before the end of the war...

After leaving the Wahoo [Annotator's Note: USS Wahoo (SS-238)], James Allen was transferred to the USS Sperry (AS-12)....

Yellin taxied and saw mounds of Japanese bodies [Annotator's Note: on Iwo Jima]. Bulldozers were pushing the bodies...

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