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Bailey checked in with his draft board and was put on a bus to Camp Croft. He told the army recruiter that he wanted to...

Monroe Scherer had lost a year of studies due to illness as a child. When he turned 18, he was still in high school. He...

William Cart thought the PBY [Annotator's Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat] was a truck, but it was...

Yellin recalls how he had a close call with a fellow pilot. From that point on Yellin did not trust that man and would...

Paul Ignatius was born in Glendale, California in November 1920. He is very proud of his hometown because many famous...

Benjamin Carson volunteered to become a Marine Raider without even knowing what that duty entailed. He was soon...

William Barnes was aboard USS PC-590 when it was thrown onto the reef which surrounds Midway atoll. After making...

Joseph Brannan was changed by the Second World War. He had started college prior to the war, but was not enthusiastic...

Raymond Vincent Hayes was born in Providence, Rhode Island in July 1926. He had three brothers but his sister died in...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez's unit [Annotator's Note: 7th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division] was given a new...

Clayton Fisher has a friend named Roy Russell who served in the same bomb group, Bombing Squadron 8 (VB-8), who is...

George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...

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