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Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior was born in February 1925 in Brewton, Alabama. He had a brother and sister....

The worst duty for Vernon Micheel was on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands as a Douglas SBD...

David R. Saunders traveled down the river [Annotator's Note: the Mississippi River] and out into the Gulf of Mexico....

David Fisher and his crewmates, flew night combat missions off the island of Guam. Originally designed as a high-...

Peter Gallo was involved in an incident that got him into trouble in Korea. A Japanese officer came in and was chasing...

James Shelton Scales boarded a troop ship on New Year's Eve, 1944. He boarded APA-154, the Lowndes [Annotator's Note:...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

Ben Kuroki’s B-24 outfit was called to North Africa to help out with the British forces who were going against Rommel....

Howard Robert Charles was part of the prisoner of war force that worked 14 months on building the Burma Railroad from...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

Edwin Henlebin described the beachhead as glutted with supplies. The problem was getting the material from the beach to...

Dr. Peter Paret, military historian and author, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, and his youth and life were shaped...

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