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Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...

Lloyd Dendy thinks that they shot several [Annotator's Note: Japanese] aircraft down while on Woodlark Island. There...

Wallace McKay was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he joined the USS Pollux (...

Wahlen was an E-5, Pharmacists Mate 2nd class when he got out of the Navy. His US Army career was over twenty years.He...

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

After graduating high school, Harlan Twible got a job then started college with the money he earned. During his...

John Smith was already in the service when the war started and he wanted to get into the fight, but he admits that when...

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

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer was sent to Korea on occupation duty after Japan surrendered.] The Russians had...

Gerald Kynett was born in December 1925 in Media, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, right outside...

After completing basic training, Henry Baul was allowed to return home for leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized...

Walter Groth remembers that military intelligence had underestimated the number of Japanese on the island [Annotator’s...

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