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Lazarick knew he was going to the Pacific. In March of 1944 the 96th Division was classified as an amphibious division....

William Leibold found O'Kane [Annotator's Note: Richard H. "Dick" O'Kane, captain of the USS Tang (SS-306)] to be very...

Byron Herbert Meader was born in May 1919 in Ellsworth, Maine. His father worked as a laborer. During the Great...

Troops were leaving Mortai [Annotator's Note: Maluku Islands, Dutch East Indies now Indonesia] to invade the...

Windom Joseph Burton was an aviation metalsmith 1st class when he was discharged. He might have received a promotion to...

James Anthony Saint Julien, Senior was born in January 1923 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]....

James Pringle signed up to fight in the war. The majority of them [Annotator's Note: Black Americans] had. It was not...

Arles E. Cole left Pearl Harbor the next morning [Annotator’s Note: Cole was a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (...

Ray Felts went to Idaho for basic training, and hoped he would get to work on a submarine, but at six-foot-four his...

After being stationed in the Aleutian Islands [Annotator's Note: Alaska], Arthur McHardy was sent to Newport, Rhode...

Edward Riedl had to count his points [Annotator's Note: a point system was devised based on a number of factors that...

Robert Swan did not select going into patrol planes. Everybody asks for fighters when they go through flight school....

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