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Robert D. Shaner's mom was German and was upset with the Germans after the First World War and her German relatives who...

Paul Sparacino was born in July 1943 in Simmesport, Louisiana. His father drove a log truck. They moved to Alexandria,...

Walter Bud Gafford [Annotator's Note: while serving aboard the USS Maryland (BB-46)] witnessed combat off Okinawa [...

Jack Pierce remembers getting to Kwajalein Island [Annotator’s Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] after they had...

Harold Buell was stationed on Guadalcanal where he found life in the field to be far more difficult than it was on his...

Ralph Weymouth's first combat action was off Guadalcanal. They were supporting the landings on the seventh [Annotator's...

Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

Chester Hollingsworth was born on a farm in October 1917 near Greenville, Texas. He had two brothers and two sisters....

[Annotator's Note: Marvin Tyson served in the Navy aboard the USS LSM-270, the lead landing ship, for the invasion of...

Harold Zeringer and several of his friends decided to enlist in the United States Navy on 9 December 1941, just a few...

James understands that movies are made so people think they are interesting. He understands that Hollywood adds its own...

Lyle Bird was assigned as a signalman and bugler aboard the USS Okanogan (APA-220) in the Pacific at the end of the war...

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