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Clarence Lee Dobbs, known to his friends as Jack, was born in June 1925 in Dearborn, Michigan. He grew up there, and...

George Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the shelling of Shuri Castle during the Battle of...

Robert S. Gibbs was separated [Annotator's Note: discharged] in November 1945. He entered college in January 1946 at...

Raymond Birdsall was born in Lockport, Louisiana. In 1941, he went over to the high school because they did not have a...

Alexander Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group...

Paul Kerchum returned to the United States after being a prisoner of war to the Japanese for four years. His ship...

When they [Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff and the rest of the strike group] arrived at the point where they [Annotator's...

Charles Wesley Borders heard about Roosevelt's [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the...

Irwin Schneider was ill prepared to be a naval officer when he went on active duty. He was sent to Fort Schuyler, New...

Edward F. Kent and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 602nd Field Artillery Battalion (Pack)] were outside of Rome [Annotator’...

Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called...

Roger Shaw was 22 years old when he returned to the United States. When he got back to the United States, he went up...

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