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James Francis McCorriston was happy to be aboard a fighting ship like the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25). The first place...

James Shelton Scales majored in insurance when he was in college. He signed up as an insurance agent after the war. He...

Ervin Markwald [Annotator’s Note: drafted into the Army at age 18] did 17 weeks of basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas...

Ben Kuroki learned that it did not matter that he had flown 30 missions, or that he had a chest full of ribbons. An...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

Harold Buell was involved in a carrier versus carrier battle in the Eastern Solomon Islands. Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern...

Clyde Barnhart was assigned to the 20th Air Force at the Overseas Replacement Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Some of...

Lieutenant Babe Meeks informed William Garbo and the men of G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment, that the he...

When they landed on New Caledonia they were told they were going to march off their sea legs with a thirty mile hike....

Arriving at Corpus Christi, Texas, John Reeder underwent "primary training," which was made difficult by some of the...

Walter Amoss was 17 years of age when the war started. Like his fellow students, he wanted to join the military and go...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin was a tail gunner on a Boeing B-29 Superfortressvery heavy bomber in the 53rd...

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