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Donald Dean went to Farragut, Idaho for boot camp then to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for fire control school where he...

Samuel Malta remembers funny occasions during the war but he also remembers being frightened by the combat. When faced...

Next, Stanley Stewart was sent to Jacksonville Air Station [Annotator's Note: Naval Air Station Jacksonville] in...

Henry Baul believes the military offered a bit more racial respect than his civilian life. While in the Marine Corps,...

Carlos Reed does not think about his service much. He has memories of the war, but he does not think it made a...

Robert Marich traveled on a Liberty Ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship], with the entire...

Another problem they had was when they 1st arrived on the island they ran out of food. When they landed they had the...

It was decided that the Laffey was going to head to Washington, DC and be tied up next to the Naval Gun Factory. The...

As they neared Iwo Jima, James Salerno and the others were told that it would not take more than a week to take the...

Shigemitsu [Annotator's Note: Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese diplomat and politician] and Alfred Dearman interacted quite...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Lowe was on the parade grounds at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii when the Japanese attacked on 7...

Robert Brant and his unit [Annotator's Note: 71st Naval Construction Battalion] invaded Bougainville [Annotator's Note...

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