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Raymond “Ray” Parrotta was assigned to LST-357 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in May [Annotator's Note: May...

Paris Tognoli got out of high school and decided not to go to college. He got a job in a slaughterhouse, but he did not...

Those with dysentery didn't live very long. Dehydration, lack of food, lack of water, the sickness, it was awful....

They went directly into Ormoc Bay [Annotator's Note: Philippines]. Once the troops landed the kamikazes started to...

Vernon Micheel attacked a Japanese cruiser on the last day of the battle [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Scouting...

Samuel Hadjinian learned how to drink and smoke through his experience of World War 2. The war helped with his career...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and his entourage met some of the Wake Island conquerors. [Annotator's Note: Borne and six...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

Paul Lawrence was born Rochelle, Illinois but lived in Ionia, Michigan. He moved to Grand Rapids [Annotator's Note:...

Howard Robert Charles [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] and the other prisoners soon found their clothes were...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The islands [Annotator...

James D. Comeaux was born in August 1926 in Crowley, Louisiana and grew up in nearby Egan, Louisiana. He did a lot of...

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