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Walter Jacobs was born in Mississippi. His father worked a variety of jobs. Jacobs grew up on a farm that did not have...

Emmett Guderian served in the occupation of Japan. He saw the remains of bombed towns. He worked with Japanese on...

James Wilson got off Cape Gloucester [Annotator's Note: Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, February 1944]...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was sent to Honolulu, Hawaii for R...

Mahlen Arledge and his platoon [Annotator's Note: 3rd Platoon, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 321st Infantry Regiment, 81st...

Gene Alair did not find Navy life difficult. He really enjoyed it. After recieving his commission, he was assigned to...

James Billingsley was on patrol one night in Japan. He went into a train station and there was nothing there, but kids...

O’Hearn “Duffy” Vincent Dufour, assigned to the USS Preston (DD-379), met the fleet in the Pacific [Annotator’s Note:...

By December 1941, William Winter was a sophomore at Ole Miss. He went to visit a friend in Cleveland, Mississippi, with...

The first name on the list leaving for the camp Tanagawa was Ray Church. McLean had arranged for this transfer as a way...

Robert Freligh probably decided to join the navy because his brother was in the army and there was most likely some...

Charles Womack saw many civilians on Okinawa. The civilians would bow as the Marines passed by them. Womack's unit [...

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