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To fill personnel losses resulting from accidents and combat, Richard Baile's crew was broken up. He was made the...

Lester Hecht's commanding officer's name was John L. Smith [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Colonel John Lucian Smith...

Frederick Ellis was sent to Hollandia, New Guinea. He recalls that they were not slated to go on the Leyte [Annotator's...

As they went out, they saw a lone destroyer or possibly a light cruiser. They went to find the carrier but they did not...

Milton L. McMullen, Sr. was born in January 1921 in Clark County, Mississippi, just south of Meridian. He finished high...

Joseph Daquarna learned about the USS Missouri (BB-63) going to Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony following the end...

After being wounded in Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] Kenneth Dwight Wells was taken to an airfield and...

Theodore Marolda got rest and then trained in Melbourne, Australia [Annotator's Note: with Company A, 1st Armored...

As the 6th Marines [Annotator's Note: 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] were going in [Annotator's Note: on...

Archie Kelley had done very well in high school and had no academic problems at all [Annotator's Note: while attending...

[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer was born in Savannah, Georgia in March 1918...

John "Jack" Raquepau grew up on a farm in Michigan in the Saginaw Valley. The area is noted for navy beans [Annotator's...

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