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It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

Robert Marich's unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne...

Mervin Jensen was born in 1926 in Albert Lea, Minnesota. There were ten kids in the family. His mom and dad raised them...

Back in Hawaii, Richard Nummer participated in the preparations for the invasion of Japan. One of Nummer's fellow...

Among his fellow officers, Earl Conklin thought there were a couple who were marvelous fellows and he has kept in touch...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines aboard the USS Butte (APA-68)]...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade was sent to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. By this time, it was near the end...

After Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville campaign, 1 November 1943 to 21 August 1945; Bougainville, Solomon...

Mitchell Zimmer and the USS Snapper (SS-185) had multiple war patrols while using faulty torpedoes. Most of their...

Salvatore Famularo [Annotator's Note: and his fellow Marines in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th...

Even with his hearing difficulties, Robert Dickinson still jumps when loud noises go off, in just the way he did when...

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