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Calvin Moore used his G.I. Bill to buy a house and go to school. The G.I. Bill was important to post World War 2...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes was named after his uncle on his father's side. As a kid, he wanted a simple name like...

Revisiting the time of his enlistment in the Marine Corps, Floyd Fogg said he signed up before he finished high school...

Thomas Francis Schicker's boot camp training was excellent. After four weeks, they went to Camp Matthews [Annotator's...

Robert Erskine Hendrick was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1920. He had one younger sister. His father served 30 years in...

William Lee Barnes enlisted in the Navy and was given basic training at Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station...

Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] received news that his ship would take part in the...

After the war ended, the captain of the USS Hampden County (LST-803) threw a huge party in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

From California they went to Kwajalein. There, Wendall Woodall tried to talk his radar operator into trying some...

Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) were with Admiral Spruance [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Raymond...

Salvatore Famularo was at the Amphitheater [Annotator’s Note: a terrain feature on Iwo Jima, Japan] which was a big...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a former prisoner of war in Japan] was a product of the Depression [Annotator'...

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