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James Roy Colquitt was born in September 1926 in Needmore, Alabama. He was one of nine children. His family lived on a...

Olaf Rose recalled having served under three different skippers on the PT-171 [Annotator's Note: PT-171, Motor Torpedo...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] was eating...

Trinidad Ledesma was drafted into the Army. He went to take his physical and two men in front of him got 4F [Annotator'...

After the war, Robert Perry found employment as a painter and as a lumber yard worker. He never used the G.I. Bill [...

When Astley Blackwell got in the water he realized that his life belt had a hole in it. He grabbed a keg which had come...

William Hall reached North Island and was assigned to one of two Marine Corps fighter units being organized. Fighter...

Arthur Fishman had one sister growing up. His mother died when he was six years old. A few years later, his father...

Robert Taylor slept in a hammock with netting for mosquitoes. They had tents. The chaplain was like the Red Cross guru...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the people in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines] were very...

Glenn Frazier was transferred to Tanagawa. The Japanese were digging into a mountain to create a dry-dock. The overhead...

James Wilson landed in Wellington, New Zealand [Annotator's Note: on 11 July 1942] and it was cold and raining. They [...

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