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Monroe Scherer was the chess champion of not only basic, but later training. He was at Fort Belvoir, Virginia which was...

When Mack was going into Okinawa in the Higgins boat, he claims he had a vision. It was a vision of his mother. His...

William Cart thinks his most difficult mission was to Maloelap [Annotator’s Note: Maloelap or Maleolap Atoll, Marshall...

Arnold A. Mirsky was born in November 1918 and was born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were immigrants of Russia...

Robert Templet was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1920. At the age of five years old, his family moved to...

William Burkett left the States in August 1945. He was in an eight-ship convoy. They left from San Francisco [Annotator...

James Roy Colquitt unloaded troops on the beach as the tide went out stranding his ship [Annotator’s Note: Colquitt was...

Deen was hit on the top of Wana Ridge [Annotators Note: Okinawa, April 1945]. He was hit by a Japanese knee mortar....

David R. Saunders recalled when they announced that the war was over. Everyone was hooping and hollering. When he...

Rollins Rosenzweig departed California aboard the carrier [Annotator's Note: Rosenzweig was a radioman and gunner on a...

Another of the Japanese pushers [Annotators Note: Japanese guards at POW camps in the Philippines] was called Many...

Mort Oman [Annotator’s Note: was assigned to Headquarters Battery, 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire control...

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