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In preparation for hitting the beaches, Joe Clapper said a soldier's main concern is that he has enough ammunition. He...

In civilian life, William J. Twigger had a dear friend who became an officer in the Navy. By stroke of luck, he wrote...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm was born in August 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up there until he enlisted in the...

David Lamar Mealor thought the Japanese soldiers were very brutal and treated people inhumanely. The dropping of atomic...

From North Island, Carl Rieman was sent to Long Beach, California for more training until his orders came in. Then he...

Howard Warren Stokes was born in 1926 in Lodi, California and was an only child. His father supported his family during...

John Kelley's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he took part in liberating the Los Baños Prison Camp [...

In 1940, Randall Edwards boarded the submarine tender USS Canopus (AS-9) in Tsingtao, China. The Canopus was a "mother...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served in the navy as a TBM Avenger pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT-13, flying from...

Allen Horton was commissioned out of midshipmen's school in Chicago, Illinois, and proceeded to Scouts and Raiders...

Warren Huggins went back to the Philippines and then went to Kobe [Annotator’s Note: Kobe, Japan]. Then he went back to...

Lionel Lopez was a shoe salesman before the war. He went back to work for the same company after he got out of the...

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