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Ernest Cowell had difficulty adjusting to civilian life. There were many servicemen in UCLA [Annotator's Note:...

Thomas Paris learned about events by radio. He would write letters home. They had C-47s [Annotator’s Note: The Douglas...

Carrol Smith did occupation duty in Nagasaki, Japan. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: George Peto served in the US Marine Corps in a machine gun section in 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine...

William Pierce reveals a lucky find of a BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle] trigger assembly with a hand...

David Heath arrived at Tulagi, the capital island of the Solomon Islands. Not long after arriving, shells started...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served in the navy as a TBM Avenger pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT-13, flying from...

Vernon wore a ring. Hershel Williams also wore a ring that was to remind him of his engagement to his fiancee Ruby....

Dale Bates' most memorable experience of World War 2 was a mission off the tip of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa,...

At the time of Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. 's enlistment [Annotator's Note: in the United States Marine Corps in December...

The South [Annotator's Note: the Southern states in the United States] was poor and the Northern states were better off...

Otis Kight was in flight school as the war was ending. He made it to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] as...

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