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Wiley stayed on the Portland [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS Portland, CA-33] for 2 days and slept on the...

In July 1943, Charles A. Waller joined the Marine Corps and went to boot camp. Waller was made a squad leader in...

[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...

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

James Warren David was assigned to an LSD [Annotator's Notes: Landing Ship, Dock] and shipped off to Korea and was part...

Hubert L. Puckett was born in Newton, Mississippi in May 1919. He moved to Dekalb, Mississippi with this family when he...

In 1944, Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior trained in maneuvers, amphibious invasion training, and other physical...

Charles Graves Chauncey bought a lot of souvenirs and alcohol while in Cuba. They returned to McCook, Nebraska and...

John Nicholas fought in World War 2 because the guys before him had signed up so he had to do so also. He had to fight...

Andrew Leblanc never had trouble. He kept his nose clean. He always did what he had to do, and he was a good soldier....

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

[Annotator's Note: Thomas Kolesa landed on Okinawa, Japan with the Searchlight Battery, 8th Antiaircraft Artillery...

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