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[Annotator's Note: Clarence Becker was a pilot flying photo reconnaissance mapping missions in Alaska in 1943.] They...

Billy Grieves rode the Falcon [Annotator's Note: US Navy submarine rescue ship USS Falcon (AM-28 /ASR-2)] down to New...

Orville Carroll is glad he was not in combat. Two of his brothers were in the armed services as well, in Germany, but...

Wallace McKay caught a merchant ship back to the United States. It took six weeks to make it back and he was only given...

By the second day of basic training Leon J. Neiman realized how hard serving in the military was going to be. One day...

Ed Weber used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted by...

Edgar Eugene "Gene" Fricker had his boot camp training in San Diego, California. Even though he was in the Navy, he was...

Ralph Morse wanted to be at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] for Christmas in 1942. He...

Harold Zeringer was a participant in the assault to take the Japanese held island of Okinawa. The invasion took place...

Ralph C. Franklin became an adjutant in Division Headquarters [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 3rd Marine Division]....

[Annotator's Note: Maynard David served in the USAAF as a bombardier on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in...

George Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the shelling of Shuri Castle during the Battle of...

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