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Schuyler Lininger was born in Evanston, Illinois in October 1923. Lininger had one older brother and one younger sister...

Adolfo V. Celaya was taken aboard the Basset [Annotator’s Note: USS Bassett (APD-73), which rescued 154 survivors of...

Harry Walker Wellford was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 6 August 1924. He spent his entire life there except for his...

Trinidad Ledesma was drafted into the Army. He went to take his physical and two men in front of him got 4F [Annotator'...

James Paul Lynch served on the USS Snook [Annotator's Note: USS Snook (SS-279)] and the USS Sea Dog [Annotator's Note:...

Chuck was able to see his Ford Coupe being driven around the island by the Japanese from a window in the church they...

Attack on 23 October 1944

Joseph Townsend wanted to join the Marine Corps. His mother objected. His father had served in the Army in the First...

Robert J. "Bob" Brasel and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 1st Platoon, Battery C, 389th Antiaircraft Artillery (...

After the war, Robert Perry found employment as a painter and as a lumber yard worker. He never used the G.I. Bill [...

Thomas Kolesa was told to clean up his area and get everything ship shape. General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: was an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] was an...

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