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Joseph LaNier was 15 years old and working in a nightclub when an incident happened in Columbus [Annotator’s Note:...

Philip Mayer and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were...

Introduced to Okinawa through a rubberized topographical map, Richard Jaccarino could see where they would be landing,...

Crump stayed in the shipyard for the better part of a year. They had launched about 14 ships. The launching details had...

Paul Sparacino was born in July 1943 in Simmesport, Louisiana. His father drove a log truck. They moved to Alexandria,...

When Robert Powers invaded Guam, he did not go in on one of the new amphibious tractors [Annotator's Note: Landing...

Martin Sherbecoe remembered that the curfew on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was very strict....

In early 1945, after completing missions in the Philippines, Richard R. Ruess' squadron [Annotator's Note: 4th...

Fred Wesighan enlisted in the Army after he graduated in high school because he "did not like people kicking around our...

When Eugene N. James completed flight training, he was shipped to Sistersville, West Virginia and then on to Cherry...

Most of the tests had to do with navigation. They got off of the ship in Pearl Harbor. Eventually Earnest was told that...

Roger Shaw was changed by World War 2. The war changed the world. Shaw had never been on a boat before, and that was a...

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