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Robert M. Solomon remembers that it was very hot during monsoon season. [Annotator’s Note: He was stationed on...

Bruno S. Rinas discussed joining the service with a younger brother. He joined the military in 1940 at Fort Snelling [...

On the way to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau], Melvin C. Whitman crossed paths with a Navy ship that...

Emmett Guderian's Navy career gave him all kinds of new experiences, from world travel to intense emotions. He...

Hilar Moore arrived at Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19 February through 26 March 1945] and the Navy...

In 1949, Louis R. Lepore joined a local tank unit that was later sent to Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to...

All of the Catholic school teachers were nuns. They were not married. High school teachers in Iowa were required to be...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Fred Gemmel already in conversation with the interviewer.] Gemmel arrived...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

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

Victor K. Carman was born in April 1927 in Woodmere, New York on Long Island. His parents divorced when he was three...

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