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Adolfo V. Celaya returned to the United States and joined his father in a one-bedroom apartment in Tucson [Annotator’s...

David Harvey would be assigned liberty depending on what side of the ship he was on, port or starboard. Passes were...

When David Thomason was at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...

Peter Hebert was born in 1927 in Algiers, Louisiana. He attended Catholic school. His father worked and his mother...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard USS LST-781] moved around the South...

Buck Donaldson remembers only one other sailor was in church on his first day in Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk,...

Rudolph C. Miller liked the Marines. He was a sucker for the uniform, and he liked it a lot. They were sharp and he...

Paul J. Frisco was born in May 1925 in Newark, New Jersey. He lived there until he was 15 years old and then moved to...

Gene Alair's most memorable experience of the war was being back on board the USS Astoria (CA-34), below decks...

One memorable experience that came to mind for William Beaman was when his submarine, the USS Flasher (SS-249), sank...

Robert Brant and his ship made it to Kyushu, Japan after hitting a typhoon in the Pacific. Brant recalled having ill...

Donald Stratton went to Corona, California towards the end of 1942. He was there for a couple months before he was...

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