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Julian Trist Bringier McConnell was loaded onto a ship in the Philippines and headed towards the United States [...

Matthew Cornelia's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when it ended. He served because he wanted to do...

Angus Francis Mestayer returned to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. They got a month long leave [...

They got in to Yokohama and were put on a train to Fukuoka, or the island of Kyushu. They were put on trucks in Saebo [...

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

On his second day on Iwo Jima, Japan, William Wayne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th...

Louis Conter enjoyed knowing both Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. He enjoyed Bob Hope the most as he was the serviceman's...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer arrived at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] on the night of 26 April 1945. He was...

Ernest Cowell thinks being on shore in the Army is different from being at sea in the Navy. In the Navy, he did not...

After Arthur Jackson got back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Okinawa...

The next morning, Jack Yusen was heading down to get some food when the call to battle stations came over the intercom...

Stewart Bass never crashed a plane but discusses an incident in Opa-locka, Florida when he was a aboard a TBM [...

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