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Robert Swan and the other officers in his squadron, Patrol Squadron 44 or VP-44, did everything underground while they...

Sterling Baker was in the National Youth Administration and trained to be a carpenter. He was also in charge of the...

Sumner Whitten noticed heavily armed Marines around the runway. At about that time they were warned to be prepared for...

Lowell Rodrigue [Annotator's Note: after joining the crew of the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] headed north to Kiska in the...

Quintana was born in McComb, Mississippi on December 15th, 1921. McComb was a railroad town. The majority of the...

John Burr joined the Naval ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] in college. He was always interested...

Walter J. Latiolais, Sr has seen the interest in World War 2 become stronger in the last few years. To him, his career...

Richard O'Hara had one brother three and a half years older than him who went in the Marines earlier than O'Hara. He...

Fighting in the Leyte Valley area lasted for two brutal months, and John Smith related the tale of the event that...

Philip Curran does not know what he thought [Annotator's Note: about the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on...

Leonard Brooks was born in the Philippines in 1924. His parents had gone to the Philippines in 1922 as missionaries and...

In Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Everett Hyland did hear rumors of going to war. When out on their two weeks at sea, and at...

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