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There was a good 40 knot tail wind that was with them for several hours. When they got to the coast of Kyushu they were...

They did not know the exact cause of his death since he was in halfway decent shape but initially they were told his...

After the war, James Allen lost contact with many of his friends from the war. He was busy with college and did not...

The war changed George Peto. After the war he was reluctant to make close friends. The separation of servicemen during...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. was assigned to the USS Tippecanoe (AO-21) tanker. Most individuals were wary of serving on...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. arrived in New Guinea at an airbase formed out of the jungle [Annotator's Note: he was a tail...

Robert S. Gibbs was assigned to fleet maneuvers at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aboard the USS...

Paul Sartori Jr. was a boatsman’s mate second class. He did maintenance work and was a gunner. They were on the ship...

Arthur Pendleton went to Pavuvu after Cape Gloucester. There, he dealt with a bout of appendicitis which almost killed...

Gene Alair was in the South Pacific for many months. He was on a Transport Division Commander's Staff, CTD8. They had...

Alfred Dearman was born in June 1930 in Abilene, Texas. He was an orphan who was adopted at three days old by an older...

Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

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