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On 18 August 1944, Frederick Grun left the United States on the HMS Empire Mace along with 200 enlisted men, a number...

Gerald Kynett picked up his ship in Evansville, Indiana, then sailed down the Mississippi [Annotator's Note:...

Myron J. Carraway was waiting for breakfast when the Pearl Harbor attack began [Annotator's Note: Carraway was aboard...

Floyd James Reissig, known as Buddy, was born in Travis County, outside of Austin, Texas in March 1919. His father was...

William “Bill” Knapp learned how tenuous life is and how men can hate each other during the Second World War. Hating is...

Following Navy tradition, Harlan Twible was the last person to be pulled out of the water. He was picked up by the...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

Howard Robert Charles was part of the prisoner of war force that worked 14 months on building the Burma Railroad from...

Marion Labauve came out of school in seventh grade. He went to work and worked hard. His first job was working on a...

Leon Griffith was born in Magee, Mississippi but raised in Monticello [Annotator's Note: Monticello, Mississippi] on a...

Frederick Jenkins was born in Detroit, Michigan in July 1926. He grew up in the fields. His father was a college...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade went to Norfolk, Virginia, where he picked up his ship. The ship held four LCMs [Annotator's...

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