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Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

Bruno S. Rinas believes that had the Americans been given better training and equipment, they would have held out...

William Roy went below on the Hammann [Annotator's Note: USS Hammann (DD-412)]. Roy found sailors being operated on and...

Melvin C. Whitman had few harassing fire missions during the nights when the Japanese would move on Peleliu [Annotator'...

Without any time to become acquainted with anyone, Aloysius "Al" Arend was put on a ship bound for combat in the...

Edward Riedl shipped out around April 1944. They stopped on Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall...

Leo William Schmittgens thought he was treated well by the veteran Marines. He learned a lot from them and cherished...

At war's end, Gerry Jones was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] preparing to invade mainland Japan. They...

Garland Bath was born in January 1925 in Evans County, Georgia in a log cabin. He attended school there. He got his...

John E. Johnson's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Liddle (APD-60)] stayed in China for a few weeks, mostly for rest and...

After the war ended, Virginia Wilterdink had enough of the island climate, and elected to work on the hospital ship USS...

Melvin Munch would have been part of the invasion force for assaulting the Japanese home islands. The atomic bombs kept...

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