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When Gravois landed on Saipan they were being shelled. Gravois lost 2 men when they landed. They were put into the line...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings returned to the States [Annotator's Note: United States] and was put on a list to be a...

Jack Pierce thought his experience in the war [Annotator's Note: World War 2] was good. He was glad it ended because he...

After the war, Wiley did meet the island chief's grandson and granddaughter. The relatives of the chief came to the US...

Ben Steele knew things were getting tense when he was sent overseas. When he got to Hawaii, he received orders to go to...

[Annotator's Note: David Thomason served in the Navy aboard the destroyer USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733).] They went...

When Benjamin Hagans was on the ship coming back, his teeth started to settle. He put on 17 pounds in three weeks. He...

James William Grimes was born in November 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything was okay during the 1920s, but the 1930s...

Following the end of the war, Harold Joslin remained in Japan briefly. The former captives were brought to a landing...

Frank V. Tarkington was born in March 1916 in Oakland, California. He was orphaned, as his mother died when he was...

As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

Lenwood Steglich did not want to stay in the Navy after the war. He attended Texas A...

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