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There would be holes in the line where there were not enough men [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1...

Eugene Corson was happy to be in the Navy. It was rough. He went to boot camp in Rhode Island at an airbase. He could...

John Singlaub had expected that his team would lead an attack on a German garrison, but a competing Communist...

William Jennings Bryan Harrison, Jr. was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in December 1926. He was named after his father...

Curtis Winfred Wise was born in September 1919 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Growing up there was great. It was a mill...

Harry Bender enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1944 and went through boot camp, which had him wondering why he decided to...

Lawrence Winnier and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Guadalupe (AO-32)] made several trips [Annotator's Note: as a...

Joseph LaNier had no training or explanation concerning how to perform as a Seabee [Annotator’s Note: Seabee is a twist...

Wanda Damberg got up to go to the bathroom one morning and saw a nun along the way [Annotator’s Note: Damberg was in...

Keith Renstrom felt like he had too much responsibility to stay with his men [Annotator's Note: even after being...

Landing on Iwo Jima was not much different to Michael Mervosh and his men than some of their other amphibious landings...

Ferrier did not like the way they were awarding flight orders to the crewman. Ferrier made his boss well aware of that...

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