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John "Jack" Raquepau got married about a week after George Bush [Annotator's Note: George H. W. Bush, 41st President of...

Eugene Tarrant went to join the military when he was 18. He was in good shape, about 175 pounds. A sergeant asked him...

Robert Frederick Reed's unit trained with rockets in Hawaii, after having trained for bombing and torpedoes. Reed...

Edward Riedl remembers that the Duck [Annotator's Note: DUKW; six-wheel-drive amphibious truck; also known as a Duck]...

When Ray Gene Gresham got out of the service, he didn't think the G.I. Bill could help him enough to afford college...

When they bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], there...

Theodore Pavlovich compares the battles on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] with those in...

When the battle initially started, Frank Pomroy was positioned with a water-cooled machine gun [Annotator's note: .30...

Lowell Rodrigue and his crew [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] picked up some Marine troops and brought...

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

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] was stationed in New Zealand. They portioned...

Stewart Bass' most memorable experience in World War 2 was his participation in the attack on the Japanese battleship...

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