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Gordon Tadewaldt was born in June 1926 in Aurora, Illinois. He was one of five children. When his father lost his job...

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

Melvin Munch would have been part of the invasion force for assaulting the Japanese home islands. The atomic bombs kept...

There was one radio station in Corpus Christi [Annotator's Note: Corpus Christi, Texas] at the time Benjamin Albert...

[Annotator's Note: A person appears in the background throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus was born in Bridgeville,...

Robert Barnett was at Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands] about ten days before the invasion of...

Rob Roy Ratliff was discharged from the Marine Corps and then used the G.I. Bill to attend American University in...

Harvey Mittleman and his unit [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was...

After receiving his draft notice, Edgar Cole went down on the appointed day and time. He was standing in a big room...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Stix served in the US Marine Corps in Company D, 3rd Armored Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine...

Edward Riedl remembers that Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] was different than Leyte [Annotator's Note:...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

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