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Henry Ratcliff was most affected by the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also called shimbu-...

Frank Campisano was told he would be in the first wave for the invasion of Japan. He departed for his old camp on...

William J. Twigger joined the remnant of the division [Annotator's Note: he had originally been a member of Company F,...

Walter Nelson went into the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. It was just about the same time that...

Michael Maziarczyk was born in July 1922. He was raised on a farm in Cameron, Pennsylvania. His mother had 14 children...

During the night the Japanese must have started a push because the ship [Annotators Note: the destroyer USS Evans]...

When Richard Thelen returned home, he served at the Grosse Ile Naval Air Station outside of Detroit [Annotator's Note:...

Earl Williams went to Camp Lee, Virginia [Annotator's Note: now Fort Lee in Prince George County, Virginia]. When he...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn and the 3rd Marine Division went ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan on 23 February 1945 and...

David Lansou served in World War 2 in the signal company, headquarters battalion, 5th Marine Division. He was born in...

Peter Hebert was born in 1927 in Algiers, Louisiana. He attended Catholic school. His father worked and his mother...

Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines. He stayed on the beach with equipment. On the second day,...

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