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Charles Martin did not want to be drafted into the Army. He tried to enlist in the Air Force cadet school. He passed...

Robert Swan and three other guys in his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 44 (VP-44)] rented a house. Each...

Donald Herbert Shown joined the Navy and completed boot camp in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] in...

Allen Horton reported aboard the USS Nevada (BB-36), and a fellow Princeton acquaintance helped him settle into...

George Joseph Sullivan went to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau] in the invasion of the Philippines. There was...

Clarence Lee Dobbs, known to his friends as Jack, was born in June 1925 in Dearborn, Michigan. He grew up there, and...

When Davis Gordon Mayes returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] his records were lost...

After the war ended, William Beaman was sent back to San Francisco, California on the USS Flasher (SS-249), then...

On 12 October [Annotator's Note: 12 October 1944], Benjamin Clark Amsden [Annotator's Note: a pilot with Fighting...

After the Battle of the Tenaru [Annotator's Note: also called the Battle of the Ilu River, 21 August 1942, Guadalcanal...

Harold Zeringer and several of his friends decided to enlist in the United States Navy on 9 December 1941, just a few...

Joe Clapper was in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine...

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