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William Beaman was born in October 1924 in Dayton, Ohio, the only boy of three children. His father died when he was...

Claude Bufford Shaw was born in Marie, Arkansas, in 1918. When his Midshipman class graduated on 13 December 1941, he...

Allen Lamm enlisted in the Navy and did his basic training in Great Lakes, Illinois. The training was not very...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard the USS LST-781] was a witness to the...

Frederick Jenkins went through the Panama Canal [Annotator's Note: Manmade canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

Robert Taylor went on a patrol on a training site on Upolu, Samoa. His unit [Annotator's Note: Taylor served in the...

When Claire Maddox went into the service [Annotator's Note: in the summer of 1943], he had the option to pick any of...

J. W. Childs was born in Cisco, Texas. From a young age, however, he and his little sister lived with their parents in...

Donald H. "Don" Bee saw a man who was captured after he got out of his airplane waving at the Americans [Annotator's...

Emmett Guderian was told he would not be able to go home before shipping out overseas. [Annotator's Note: Guderian...

David Thomason used the G.I. Bill in 1950 after having just gotten married. He went back to farming several acres of...

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