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[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as a coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Okinawa [...

Claude Shannahan lives in Harrison Township. He draws a pension from Chrysler but worries how long that will last with...

When he returned to the United States, William Goldsborough was mustered out of Fort Meade [Annotator's Note: Fort...

Near the end of the war, while the 11th Airborne [Annotator's Note: 11th Airborne Division] was flown to Okinawa [...

William Winter had no inclination to stay in the Army after the war. He was fortunate to have come through the war...

Richard Bennett remembers that it was in the Palau Islands that his vessel had their most memorable encounters with the...

[Annotators Note: Robert Ray Akins served in a special weapons company in the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

Clark Wackerman was born in March 1926 in Brighton, New York, the oldest of three children. His father worked as a...

Walter Nelson was only 19 years old at the time [Annotators Note: at the time of the Battle of the Coral Sea]. The USS...

William Jackson returned to the United States in the latter part of 1946. He lived with his mother and dad and later...

Harry A. Donovan was assigned to a transport ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Leon (APA-48)] and trained for a month on...

Joe Clapper was in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine...

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