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Jack Leaming [Annotator's Note: with Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] went to Honolulu [...

Sometimes when the PT boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat] that Olaf Rose served on [Annotator's Note: PT-171,...

It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

Leo Denault finished school in June and went into the service on 16 August 1943. He went to basic training in Gulfport...

James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

William S. “Bill” Beamish’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his fiancée came to the railroad station...

Charles Dragich saw burials every day [Annotator’s Note: while a prisoner of war of the Japanese at Camp O’Donnell in...

James Warren David explains how the LCVPs [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP] loaded up troops...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the US Marine Corps] feels some of the films about World War 2 are...

After Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville campaign, 1 November 1943 to 21 August 1945; Bougainville, Solomon...

Arthur L. Eads was born in Plainville, Kansas [Annotator's Note: in August 1920]. His father was a farmer, but then...

Jack Werner felt that he was at home when he came to the United States. It seemed that this is where he belonged. It...

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