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Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...

Crump had enrolled as a draftsman in the local aircraft plant but in the meantime several of the shipyards had posted...

After serving aboard the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke DD-4156)], Claude Bufford Shaw was assigned to the Bullard...

In boot camp, George Vincent Ross was initially treated as a low-life by the DI [Annotator's Note: drill instructor]....

Lionel Lopez was a shoe salesman before the war. He went back to work for the same company after he got out of the...

Patrick Zilliacus worked in a factory near Washington, D.C. for Engineering and Research Corporation [Annotator's Note...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum [Annotator's Note: a radioman aboard the USS Leon (APA-48)] was part of the invasion at Okinawa [...

Walter Broll always had a haircut on Saturday. He would then go to confession since he was raised a Catholic. On one...

Some of the things Richard F. Penwell [Annotator's Note: and the rest of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute...

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

Sterling Baker was on the invasion of Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands]. When he was in Leyte [...

After the war, Robert S. Gibbs told his boss he was getting married, and he asked for a raise. His pay went up to 200...

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