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Iwo Jima as the worst place Dave Severance fought. They could not see the enemy. The terrain was rough and open. Living...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was born in April 1923 in Visalia, California. During the Great Depression, his father worked for...

Ray Gene Gresham was born in July 1927 in Lawrence County, Illinois, the last of the six children of a farmer. After...

Harold Zeringer returned to New Orleans in March 1946 and embarked on a concentrated law school effort. He took three...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the invasions of the Marshall and Gilbert...

Raymond Day Gimbut was born in 1921 in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York,...

Norman Hatch disembarked his ship in Nagasaki Harbor to begin the occupation of Japan and immediately saw the...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari the day after the attack. It appeared that the Abbott may have been the...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

After enlisting in the Navy, John St. Germain had his boot camp training in Farragut, Idaho [Annotator’s Note: Farragut...

Sometimes when the PT boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat] that Olaf Rose served on [Annotator's Note: PT-171,...

When Oran Harris' ship pulled into port in New Guinea, he walked ashore just to say he had been there. But he saw no...

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