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Robert Taylor slept in a hammock with netting for mosquitoes. They had tents. The chaplain was like the Red Cross guru...

Fiske Hanley II, a Special Prisoner of the Kempeitai [Annotator's Note: Kenpeitai, also called Kempeitai; military...

James Paul Lynch served on the USS Snook [Annotator's Note: USS Snook (SS-279)] and the USS Sea Dog [Annotator's Note:...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

Normand F. Gallichant was preparing to hit the beaches of Japan just before the war ended. Defenses in Japan would have...

Robert Savage's most memorable experience of the war was seeing the treaty signed [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

George Hamilton was born in April 1922 in West Monroe, Louisiana. Hamilton lived in five states before he was six years...

The newly commissioned USS Cavalier (APA-37), with Edward Lee Allesandro aboard, picked up Seabees [Annotator's Note:...

Randolph Daniel headed back to the farm [Annotator’s Note: home was in Marshall County, Alabama] but could not find a...

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

Ralph Morse covered medicine and all the important doctors after World War 2. He covered Broadway until the space...

Richard Witaker landed on Red Beach 2 on Easter Sunday, April Fool's day of 1945 [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945]. The...

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