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The Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 through 1953] broke out in June 1950 and James Shelton Scales did not realize he...

Basic training was rough for Raymond Loidolt. He was 18. It was lot of climbing with full packs on. Once you go through...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Lowe was on the parade grounds at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii when the Japanese attacked on 7...

After being assigned to a squadron [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Marine Bombing Squadron 612 (VMB-612), a North...

Forrest Villarrubia volunteered for the Marines the day after his high school graduation. His mother would not sign for...

Leisey was told before he deployed that he was going to go to Officer Candidate School, yet that never developed. He...

Thomas Edward Pugh enjoyed returning to the United States, but also enjoyed going overseas. Pugh was surprised when he...

Robert Erskine Hendrick did not find it too difficult to readjust to civilian life. He worked in the circulation...

Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

[Annotator’s Note: James Carrington enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1939 and spent two years in China...

Jack Houston returned to the United States around May 1946. He was discharged at the end of May or beginning of June in...

[Annotator's Note: Thomas Kolesa was on Kauai, Hawaii with the Searchlight Battery, 8th Antiaircraft Artillery...

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