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Robert S. Gibbs was shipped to Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines, aboard the USS Boston (CA-69)] in October...

John Geiger was shipped to New Guinea [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 31st Infantry Division]. They went through...

Following his graduation from Kings Point [Annotator's Note: the US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York],...

Richard Jaccarino was born in May 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was still an infant, the family moved to the...

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

William Stewart wore fatigues with big pockets. He would keep pocketbooks and would read while he waited in lines. He...

A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

The first island the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) approached was Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Tarawa, Gilbert Islands], and...

Rowland Elliott Ball served as a navigator with the 60th Bombardment Squadron, 39th Bombardment Group, 20th Air Force...

James Newsom was assigned to the USS Sarsfield (DD-837) in New York. The Sarsfield was larger than his previous...

James Gaffney’s assessment of the John Wayne World War II movie entitled "They Were Expendable" was that it was mostly...

There has not been three and a half years of William J. Twigger's life that have had such a profound effect on him as...

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