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That was the end of combat for Harold DeForest. After DeForest got out of the hospital he was supposed to go back to...

Frederick Ellis was relieved [Annotator's Note: of his command of USS LST-1026] and went to San Francisco [Annotator's...

Russell Gackenbach was summoned one day after dinner to answer the phone. He knew that something had to be wrong for...

Asked what he thought of the Philippine people, Theodore Pavlovich said he made friends wherever he went, and found...

On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Robert Taylor...

Harold DeForest was on Leyte on his way back to the 37th Infantry Division when the atomic bomb was dropped and the war...

Thomas Kolesa was born in July 1924. He married at 18 and had three children. He is originally from Illinois and moved...

Russell Gackenbach was a member in one of the 15 crews officially assigned to the 509th, 393rd Bomb Squad [Annotator's...

Ralph Morse was born in Manhattan in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in October 1917. His father...

Stewart Bass flew a TBM Avenger [Annotator's Note: Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber] during the Second World War. He...

Robert Perry did his Navy boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. He was then sent to...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for service with the Navy shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator...

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