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William S. “Bill” Beamish was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1923 and grew up in nearby Wellesley Hills. His father,...

Hershel Hibbard recalled the process of refueling the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)]. Another ship...

Armando Galella was born in January 1921 in New York, New York. When he was around four years old, he moved with his...

Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the military and was able to select the Navy as his service branch. He grew up during the...

When he was in high school, Paul Amrod played baseball as a catcher. In the service, he learned he was not major league...

George A. Damiano recalls that the local population [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] was happy to have the...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was born in Ballinger, Texas in May 1925. In the 1920s, his parents owned a ranch. Because...

Lynward Joseph "Buddy" or "Bud" Adams was a Navy Armed Guard and guarded US Merchant Marine ships during World War 2....

Rudolph C. Miller had no place to go and nowhere to live when he was 16. He tried to forge his certificate [Annotator's...

Lloyd Guillory joined the Air Force and was shipped to Sheppard Field in Texas. It was a hell hole for Guillory. There...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Dietzel served in the USAAF as a copilot on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in the...

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