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Joseph Townsend remembers the other port city he went to was Alexandria [Annotator’s Note: Alexandria, Egypt]. There...

Cleatus Lebow was born in 1924 in Happy, Texas. He grew up as one of 11 children during the Great Depression, but, as a...

When Edward Chinnis reported aboard the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Dorchester (APB-46)], there was a third class...

Harold Buell is proud to have been a dive bomber pilot. He was recalled from the United States to help a squadron that...

William O’Brien and fellow sailors played cards or slept when they were not working. He had to take classes to get a...

On 1 September 1944, Edward Driscoll was involved in the bombing of Chichijima [Annotator's Note: Chichijima, Japan]....

Donald Hoff was regularly assigned to fly with Ensign Stone. Hoff was used to flying with him and felt like they were a...

Frederick Ellis was sent to Hollandia, New Guinea. He recalls that they were not slated to go on the Leyte [Annotator's...

Martin Carmody took a course that would be parallel to the island. He made a good landing in the ocean but the force of...

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

Jack Holder [Annotator’s Note: serving with Patrol Bombing Squadron 103 (VPB-103)] flew missions across the English...

Louis Andriano was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when the war ended. There were no newspapers aboard...

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