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Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....

Paul Harless was born in Corryton, Tennessee in December 1921. His father worked in various jobs during the Great...

Calvin Moore left boot camp in September 1943. He attended his sister's funeral and returned in time to be shipped out...

Ray Eshelman was never interested in a military career. He had a couple of choices at discharge. He could join the...

Edgar Harrell was assigned to the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) [Annotator's Note: sometimes referred to as "Indy"] serving...

Walter Jacobs thought the BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle] was a good weapon but required a lot of...

Steve McMurray was born in June 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked as an accountant for a realty company...

Richard H. Kerr's most memorable experience is when a kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also...

After Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville campaign, 1 November 1943 to 21 August 1945; Bougainville, Solomon...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

Walter Jacobs thought that the Japanese were not normal people. They were fanatics. They were good at sneaking around...

The drill instructor Steve McMurray had for basic training was a small, compact, mean man from Mississippi who was "as...

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