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Robert D. Shaner was called up 1 July 1943 to go to a school in Flagstaff, Arizona, the Arizona State Teachers College...

All of the barnstormers had on the boots, leather jackets and goggles and all had a bottle of spirits in the back seat...

Frank M. Heuer Sr. was assigned to the crew of a crash boat and deployed to Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll,...

Paul Sparacino [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5) during Operation Dominic, series of...

After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Barrick served in the US Navy aboard the submarine USS Tang (SS-306) during that vessel's...

As Ralph Weymouth approached the Japanese fleet, he saw that it was organized in a typical formation for ships at sea....

Rollins Rosenzweig continued to fly missions over Okinawa after the attack on the Japanese battleship Yamato. Missions...

Chester Hollingsworth did not have much fun in basic training. The trainees were assigned ten to a tent. Besides...

Murphy Burke continued his training while he waited for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Yarnell (DD-541)] to be...

Frank George Memory had no problems returning from the war. He was married in 1946 and had five children with his wife...

Irwin Schneider learned how to obtain needed ammunition and how to safely load added weapons and ammo on a PT boat. He...

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