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Joseph Vater's older brother was old enough to serve, but was married and had a child, so he was not drafted. Vater was...

Edward Bruce Jennings was born in December 1924 in Port Arthur, Texas. At his age, children did not worry about the...

Ernest Cowell was first sent to Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], an atoll in the Pacific...

Mack graduated from high school June 1st, 1943. He entered the United States Navy on July 13th, 1943 and was discharged...

One of Crump’s friends was on watch on a ship that was torpedoed. Crump’s convoy had about 35 percent casualties. The...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer was known as "Chub" through high school. He was born in Abilene, Kansas, in March 1926. His...

Rufus Harris signed up for Navy ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] because his dad anticipated the...

David Fisher was born in December 1925 in Evangeline, Louisiana and grew up in Jennings, Louisiana where his family...

Erik Johnsen's training in the US Merchant Marine at Henderson Point, Mississippi was very similar to that of a raw...

Arthur L. Eads did not talk about his World War 2 experience for many years. Fireworks make him very jittery. The war...

Kenneth Killilea left Maui and traveled by LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship Tank] to Saipan. The Japanese did not...

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