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Floyd James Reissig was hit by shrapnel from one of his own guns. While they were firing, the shrapnel hit him, causing...

Vaughn Whitworth boarded a troop train to Norfolk, Virginia where he loaded onto the USS James O'Hara (APA-90) and...

Clayton Hall was pinned down [Annotator's Note: with Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

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

The USS Champion (AM-314) moved to the Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] area, and Elmer Spraker said it was...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in Evansville, Indiana on the Ohio River...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Theodore Marolda received orders to board a transport bound for the Solomon Islands after it was discovered the...

James Roland Westbrook enlisted in the Marine Corps in March 1943. He wanted to be a Marine even though his father, who...

Thomas Crosby gives his wife all the credit for his breakthrough with is post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. He...

Paul Amrod was born in November 1926 in Saugerties, New York, the tenth of 11 children. His father, a Lebanese...

Paris Tognoli wonders how he made it. He pondered that many times in his life. He got to go home. When he landed in the...

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