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

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

Joseph Townsend wanted to join the Marine Corps. His mother objected. His father had served in the Army in the First...

Mark Maynard trained new submariners at New London before being assigned to a new submarine. He was responsible to...

Bruno Rinas thought Camp O’Donnell [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war camp] was a hell hole. There was no water for...

Harold “Hal” Leith [Annotator’s Note: as a member of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), the forerunner of the...

William H. Greason faced discrimination throughout his time in the military from 1943 to 1946. Having grown up in the...

Henry George Joffray was born in March 1926. He grew up in Bellville, Illinois near St. Louis. He graduated from high...

Frank Pomroy had decided to go on a third invasion regardless of whether or not he would be sent home. The Marines drew...

Edgar Harrell was floating in the Pacific Ocean with a life jacket while other were not [Annotator's Note: after he...

In early January [Annotator's Note: January 1944] Allen Tillery went to Linda Vista where he boarded the USS Manila Bay...

[Annotator's Note: Allen Tillery served in the USMC as a Japanese language specialist. For the campaign in the Marshall...

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