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The operation on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau] was supposed to be in conjunction with the offensive...

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

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was in engineering school when the Army decided to cancel the program. He was sent to...

Robert G. Aldous was sometimes called "Bob". He was born in July 1925 in Ogden, Utah and grew up in Huntsville, Utah....

Robert D. Shaner made a trip to the Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Lingayen Gulf, Philippines aboard the USS LST-475...

Harold Eugene "Hal" Joslin was born in 1918 in Port Angeles or Sequim, Washington. He was born and raised on a dairy...

Mark John Maynard served on USS Sturgeon (SS-187), USS Marlin (SS-204), and USS Cobbler (SS-344) during World War Two....

Connick and the USS Lander [Annotator's Note: APA-178] brought supplies to Naha Beach on Okinawa. At one point they...

After doing shore duty for a couple weeks, Lincoln Grahlfs was transferred to Guam [Annotator’s Note: Northern Marianas...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for service with the Navy shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator...

Ben Ray Bost had a new captain come aboard [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316] after Captain Fritsch [Annotator's Note...

Ben Steele was on a detail when he passed out on the side of the road, stricken with malaria. When he was finally able...

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