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Returning to the United States, Vaughn Whitworth was offered a promotion to reenlist. He had had enough and went home....

Henry Joffray was a member of the Merchant Marine during World War 2. There were 4,000 ships and 260,000 sailors in...

John Caudle became very close friends with his crew. It was a lot like family. He went to Clovis, New Mexico and was...

John Bradley returned from Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953] and attended jump school...

Abraham Rosenzweig returned home [Annotator’s Note: to Chicago, Illinois from Los Angeles, California where he had...

On 1 July 1943, Louis Burg [Annotator’s Note: who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942] was ordered to active duty and...

Jack Yusen remembers the shells flying by sounded like freight trains and the explosions sounding like thunder. Another...

Harlan Twible and many others saw the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] as it went down. They were...

Lewis S. Evans wrote letters to his girlfriend back at school, and there was one time that he did not receive any for...

Bailey has seen the Okinawan civilian jumping off of cliffs on television. It puzzles Bailey how two Okinawan women...

The prisoners would steal stuff whenever they could. Sometimes the men would get searched. Everyone would throw their...

Father Lanigan [Annotator's Note: unable to verify identity] was almost like a father to the men, including George...

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