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William Hill was born in August 1922 in rural eastern Kentucky. His father, a subsistence farmer, moved the family to...

Richard O'Hara and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion] saw very little action. When...

Lester Hecht's wife [Annotator's Note: Lillian] did not mind moving back in with her parents, when Hecht went to war....

Walter J. Latiolais, Sr reenlisted in the Army in 1949 for three years. He was given his previous rank and sent to Camp...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

David McKinley Blackwell did not stay in New Guinea long. The terrain was mountainous and covered in jungle. From there...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson [Annotator's Note: a radioman on the USS Balao (SS-285) enjoyed free time at Brisbane [Annotator's...

Soon after the Battle of the Philippines, Murphy Burke remembers spending a week at one of the larger ports, Ulithi....

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

Clayton Hall got to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: New Caledonia, Oceania] and the ship lost a prop [Annotator's Note...

Kenneth Dwight Wells was shipped to the Pacific in November 1944 aboard the USS O.H. Ernst (AP-133) [Annotator's Note:...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

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