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Russell Gackenbach was born in 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His family was Pennsylvania Dutch. His father was...

Those with dysentery didn't live very long. Dehydration, lack of food, lack of water, the sickness, it was awful....

One of Angus Francis Mestayer's friends was lonesome and he wanted to go home. One guy on the rifle range climbed the...

When Claude Taylor turned 18, he enlisted in the Navy. His father had been in the Army in France in World War 1. The...

Ernest Cowell was first sent to Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], an atoll in the Pacific...

Nick Cristiano was shot down on 15 April 1945. He was in prison for five and a half months [Annotator's Note: he was...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Bailey served in the Navy as an aircraft mechanic aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13). He...

Alfred Taddeo is from Portland, Oregon. While there with a group of classmates at the University of Portland Oregon [...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer was known as "Chub" through high school. He was born in Abilene, Kansas, in March 1926. His...

John H. Cole was on his way to Japan for the invasion when the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped...

John Gehrett [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit] participated in the occupation of Japan...

Roger Shaw boarded another ship after his assignment as captain of the Army transport. The ship had a radio operator...

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