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Roy Boreen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1920. During the Great Depression, his father worked as a cement...

When Julian Trist Bringier McConnell left the bigger ship that took him overseas, he patrolled mountainous islands and...

Walter Bud Gafford was present on the morning of 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked [Annotator's Note: the...

Roger A. Lewis was born in March 1920 in Chunchula [Annotator's Note: Chunchula, Alabama]. He was the oldest of eight...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Urban was working in Santa Ana, California when Marine Fighter Squadron 212 (VMF-212) was...

When James Patterson and his unit went to Manila [Annotator’s Note: Manila, the Philippines], they went into some of...

James Buckley's LST [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-1013, a Landing Ship, Tank] had 40mm [Annotator's Note: Bofors 40mm...

Introduced to Okinawa through a rubberized topographical map, Richard Jaccarino could see where they would be landing,...

Ittsei Nakagawa was born in January 1930 in Fresno, California. He was fortunate in that the lady who delivered him was...

Later on [Annotator's Note: in the war] in the atolls on the way to China, the destroyers would go into the lagoons...

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