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Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was on lookout duty with hi-powered binoculars when the first invasion attempt on Wake Island...

Buck Donaldson was headed to LSU [Annotator’s Note: Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana]. He had a...

William Barnes was sent home on leave after returning to the United States from the Pacific. He enjoyed seeing his...

By the second day of basic training Leon J. Neiman realized how hard serving in the military was going to be. One day...

Walter Jacobs took part in the fighting on Guam, Leyte, Kerama Retto, Ie Shima, and Okinawa. Of those, Okinawa was the...

When Davis Gordon Mayes returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] his records were lost...

Ed Weber used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted by...

Richard Bennett thinks World War 2 doesn't mean much to today's Americans, except for a small amount of appreciation....

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior [Annotator's Note: of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 28 (MTB RON 28) aboard PT-381...

Ray Gene Gresham digresses to mention that while he was at Camp Crowder, Missouri, he was serving in Company C, 2nd...

Schuyler Lininger was born in Evanston, Illinois in October 1923. Lininger had one older brother and one younger sister...

William “Bill” Knapp was born in July 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He moved from there to a farm in Allerton, Iowa when...

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