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Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...

James William Grimes was assigned as a mess cook. He was very young [Annotator's Note: he was only 16 years old, but...

Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...

James W. Metcalf was born in Toledo, Ohio in September 1924. When he was still an infant, Metcalf’s father moved the...

Sterling Baker was on the invasion of Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands]. When he was in Leyte [...

Wesley Carroll was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1922. He grew up there, and graduated from high school in 1939, after...

Joseph Daquarna sailed the small submarine tender USS Greenlet (ASR-10) to China and then to the West Coast where he...

Hersey Goodwin was in high school, and they talked current events in the mornings. They knew about it [Annotator's Note...

Thomas Tizzard was on the USS Denver (CL-58) at Bougainville, covering the landing troops. They would bombard the...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings always had a soft spot for the Marblehead [Annotator's Note: USS Marblehead (CL-12)]. It...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Pendleton served in the US Marine Corps as a machine gunner in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st...

Adolph Wilson was a platoon sergeant on Iwo Jima but acted as a lieutenant after the officers were wounded or killed....

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