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When Benjamin Hagans was on the ship coming back, his teeth started to settle. He put on 17 pounds in three weeks. He...

Charles “Chuck” Wisher grew up fast in the service. Many young men he has seen could benefit from that. Wisher liked...

Arthur Killam kept up with some of the guys he served with in the US Navy during the war but never went to any of the...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs enlisted into the Navy in the fall of 1942 and was inducted on 5 October 1942. At that time, the...

Thomas Tizzard decided to separate having survived two ships being torpedoed. He had had enough combat. Once on Guam,...

By the end of October 1943, Benjamin Albert Glusing was sending in payroll to get his men paid. He commanded 40 men at...

A submarine was the first nuclear-powered vessel and the Nautilus' [Annotator's Note: USS Nautilus (SSN-571] reactor...

Randall Edwards likened the old Chinese army camp where he was held prisoner to a group of American-style hog houses....

Frank V. Tarkington was born in March 1916 in Oakland, California. He was orphaned, as his mother died when he was...

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

Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...

They [Annotator's Note: Pedro Parra and the rest of the 854th Engineer Aviation Battalion] left Kwajalein [Annotator's...

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