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Clayton Hall's most memorable experience of the war is fighting and wondering what he would be doing if he ever got out...

One night, Leon Griffith was on patrol. The sergeant said they should all lay down and go to sleep. The moon came up...

Salvador Guercia was born in February 1926 in Long Beach, Mississippi. He lived on his grandfather's farm until he was...

Vernon Micheel met his future wife in June 1943 in Wildwood, New Jersey. They were married in October 1946. Micheel...

Within a few miles of Aparri [Annotator's Note: Aparri, Philippines], Leo V. Strausbaugh met up with Major Connolly [...

Marvin Hill can recall many anecdotes from his military career, ranging from boot camp to discharge. He had no...

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ray Emory very clearly remembers that he was sitting on the bottom of a three...

After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

James Bollich had just gotten back from the movies when he heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Alvin Barnes rode out a typhoon off Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Purdy (...

Ray Fitzgerald was born in March 1922 in Union County in North Mississippi. He grew up there in a rural home. The draft...

Real estate helped Paul Kerchum get over his war experience because it was very cutthroat. Sometimes he would have...

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