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One memorable experience that came to mind for William Beaman was when his submarine, the USS Flasher (SS-249), sank...

On 6 August 1945, Russell Gackenbach was ordered on a special mission to Japan. At three o’clock in the morning, his...

James Patterson enjoyed flying. He misses flying. His nephew took him to Mount Pleasant, Texas where there was a hangar...

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Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

The invasion of the Admiralty Islands [Annotator's Note: Admiralty Islands Campaign, Operation Brewer, 29 February to...

Allen Ray Sibley was born in November 1925 in Livingston Parish [Annotator's Note: Livingston Parish, Louisiana]. He...

Richard Miralles accepted everything that came to him because he knew he could not change it. They did not talk about...

John Cassidy recalled a regular day in his division included an early rise, a shower, breakfast and "quarters" which...

Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...

In January 1944, Yellin was sent to Thunderbird Field in Arizona. That was where he took his primary training. He was...

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