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Robert L. Rorschach enlisted in the Navy and attended Midshipman School at Prairie State, and spent time aboard the...

When Ernest Cowell was in high school, his friends started being drafted. One boy was a tanker [Annotator's Note: part...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

It was a wonderful experience. Stinson would not trade a million dollars for his experience in World War II. On average...

After a narrow escape from a deadly Japanese ambush, and a tragic friendly fire casualty that night, William Garbo and...

When William Lansford was in Iceland, he and the other Marines spent their time building their own Quonset huts and...

In his second year at Yale [Annotator's Note: Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut], Walter Joseph Patrick Curley...

Dee Wayne White was born in September 1929 in Chester, Idaho. At age eight, his parents divorced, and he moved with his...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer arrived at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] on the night of 26 April 1945. He was...

Emiline Ann Bourgeois was stationed at West Point [Annotator's Note: as an Army nurse at the hospital of the United...

The Saratoga [Annotator's Note: aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, CV-3] was getting ready to leave San Diego for Pearl...

George Colburn does not believe in bravery. The last thing on your mind is getting a medal. Medals counted for points...

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