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Life was rather simple in Honolulu, Hawaii when Ray Emory got there in October 1941. He didn't drink in those days, so...

Alfred Rodrigues was involved with new construction at the Brooklyn Navy Shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn Navy Yard...

James Billingsley was on the line and he had fired his rifle so much that he could not touch it due to the heat. The...

The United States was going into Biak [Annotator's Note: Biak, Western New Guinea] and the Japanese thwarted the...

In Harold DeForest's platoon there were two squads of machine guns and three squads of mortars. There were about 12 men...

During the war, Aaron Baumgarten worried less about meeting up with the Japanese than he was of coming to a bad end...

After securing Ngesebus they went back across to Peleliu. It was James McEnery's birthday the day they made their...

Captain Murray [Annotators Note: Captain Stuart S. Murray] was the captain on the USS Missouri. Starnes and Murray got...

Earl Williams [Annotator's Note: with the 318th Port Company, 512th Port Battalion] had equipment that was used to pick...

William Darling was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1925. He always wanted to be in the military. He wanted to go to...

Arthur Jackson was in the hospital in Noumea, New Caledonia for three or four weeks before being shipped back to the...

William Currier's first seagoing engagement was aboard the USS Hall (DD-583) as part of a task group that escorted...

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