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Camp Bowie [Annotator's Note: in Brownwood, Texas] was a major camp that could handle several regiments. At the same...

Walter Nelson recognized that they were close enough that they could have bailed over Australia if they needed to. From...

Edmond Guidry took a troop ship out of San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] with no escort and...

Edward Bruce Jennings remembers that on their way to Japan, a typhoon came up. The ships had to get out of the bay to...

Mahlen Arledge experienced his first combat on Angaur. He had no idea what to expect in combat. The first night on the...

One night, as Richard Jaccarino was sleeping under his poncho, the Japanese counterattack began. Just below their...

Paul A. Franklin was born in in February 1922 in Elm Grove, Louisiana. He was raised during the Great Depression [...

Donald Draxler was discharged from the Army in July 1946. He bought a house in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Draxler wanted to...

John Ream had to learn what war was. He thought the hike to Camp John Hay [Annotator’s Note: Camp John Hay in Baguio,...

The following morning, Frank Pomroy was told that they would cross the airfield [Annotator's Note: on Peleliu] at a...

Joseph LaNier joined the United States Navy in February 1944. African-Americans prior to 1942 were not allowed to join...

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) were part of Task Group 38.2 under Admiral...

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