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Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

Dale Peterson felt the Okinawa campaign to be the most difficult. He was at battle stations 113 times. Fear of death...

David Yoho had his first voyage on a tanker shakedown trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia. After the shakedown, the ship went...

Richard Miralles was born in July 1924 in Anderson, California. He was an orphan. His parents separated. He lived with...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn and the 3rd Marine Division went ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan on 23 February 1945 and...

Hunger and thirst tormented Cleatus Lebow and his fellow shipmates from the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) who were stranded...

John Nicholas lost touch with his half brother, George Hamaty, for three years during the war. While Nicholas was on...

James Patterson remembers classification was the hardest part of becoming a cadet. They were considered privates as far...

Howard Hart was incarcerated in two of the camps on Luzon. First he was in Santo Tomas and then in Los Banos. Santo...

Peter Gallo was discharged as a PFC [Annotator's Note: Private First Class]. He began life as "kind of a sick kid," who...

Ricardo R. Rondinelli returned to his hometown in Puerto Rico after his overseas deployment in the Pacific. A week...

As they [Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody and John Liska] approached, the entire village came to greet them. Carmody...

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