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Murphy Burke made good, lasting friendships while in the Navy, and when he got out, he took advantage of the G.I. Bill...

Robert Jarvis was born in Muskegon, Michigan in September 1923. He had one younger brother and one younger sister. His...

Fred Bronfin was had mixed feelings about leaving the Navy. In the service everything was taken care of for him. In the...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Jacob Velfling, Jr.'s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was at a farm behind enemy lines. He met two...

While at Finschhafen [Annotator's Note: Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea], people were needed to watch the docks. Robert J...

[Annotator's Note: Horace Trahan served in the Navy on occupation duty outside of Tokyo, Japan.] He stayed aboard ship...

Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near...

Thomas Francis Schicker had his 19th birthday at Ulithi. He became friends with Leo Schmidtkin [Annotator's Note:...

Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] did not get to see...

Tenney did not believe the photo he saw of the Japanese soldier in Hollywood star and started laughing at it. The...

After Michael Mervosh helped his wounded friends in the foxhole he realized that he had lost his hearing [Annotator's...

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