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Leslie B. Mason, Junior was born in 1926 in Montevideo, Minnesota. He did not stay there long. His father worked as a...

Church did not know what to expect when he surrendered. There was about 5000 troops with over 4500 backups. There were...

Charles Brooks entered the United States Navy. He was first shipped to Athens, Georgia for basic physical training...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was born in April 1923 in Visalia, California. During the Great Depression, his father worked for...

Gerald West was transported from Tulagi to Guadalcanal aboard the USS Colhoun (APD-2). The USS Colhoun was sunk while...

Samuel Ukrop was at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] with John Cleveland [Annotator's Note...

Charles Watkins Adair was sent to Nadzab, New Guinea [Annotator's Note: Nadzab Airfield in Lae, Papua New Guinea with...

Serving in the Red Cross made Barbara Butler a more forceful and less shy person. It improved her leadership skills and...

Robert G. Aldous and his crew lost their radar operator. Their copilot went to get a suntan and went to sleep. He fell...

Robert Taylor made the landing [Annotator's Note: on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea] on LSTs [Annotator...

James Wilson left Peleliu [Annotator's Note: after the Battle of Peleliu, September to November 1944, Peleliu, Palau]...

Myers didn't lock his doors when he was growing up. If strangers came by, you would share food with them. People came...

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