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Sam S. McKeel served in the Navy as a fire director controlman on the forward twin 40 mm Bofors guns [Annotator's Note...

Kenneth Killilea received his Marine Corps boot camp training at Parris Island. The moment he stepped off the bus upon...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker goes by Gene because he liked being greeted that way. He was born in June 1926 in Cushing,...

Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

Wicker was told to go relieve the man on the gate but he refused because he knew he had more points than any man over...

Harold G. Cowart was born in September 1924 in Statesboro, Georgia. His parents were sharecroppers and he and his 11...

[Annotator's Note: Eugene Tarrant served in the Navy as a captain’s mess attendant aboard the USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Charles Watkins Adair [Annotator's Note: with the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Air Force] was on the island of Luzon [...

Austin H. Kiplinger went to Anacostia Naval Air Station [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Anacostia...

James Paul Lynch was going to submarine school in New London [Annotator's Note: New London, Connecticut]. LIFE magazine...

[Annotator's Note: James McEnery served in the USMC as a rifleman in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

William Wayne says that Iwo Jima, Japan is shaped like a shoe. The part he was on was deep, thick, volcanic ash that...

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