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When he went into combat for the first time, Steve McMurray said he, like everyone else, was scared. When he came upon...

The newly commissioned USS Cavalier (APA-37), with Edward Lee Allesandro aboard, picked up Seabees [Annotator's Note:...

John Caudle did not have a lot of notice when he was called to active duty. He came home after work one Friday and had...

World War 2 made a good Christian out of Frank Kern. When he got back home, he felt taken care of, was kept busy by the...

After the attack on 7 December [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Cass...

The first chance William Lansford and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion had [Annotator's Note: to fight the Japanese] was...

Robert Erskine Hendrick [Annotator's Note: a US Marine aboard the USS Idaho (BB-42)] was sent to the Pacific [Annotator...

Robert Brant and his ship made it to Kyushu, Japan after hitting a typhoon in the Pacific. Brant recalled having ill...

Deen was hit on the top of Wana Ridge [Annotators Note: Okinawa, April 1945]. He was hit by a Japanese knee mortar....

Arthur Lee returned to the United States in December 1945 by way of the Aleutians, landing at Seattle, Washington. From...

Harry Walker Wellford attended the Navy V-12 program [Annotator’s Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to...

Edward Bruce Jennings contracted malaria [Annotator's Note: disease caused by a parasite that commonly infects a...

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