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Lawrence J. Delaune, Sr. believes he matured from his experience in World War 2. He believes the world is losing its...

Leonard Brooks had Filipino friends who he continued to visit throughout his time on house arrest. One friend put on...

Arnold A. Mirsky was assigned as a navigator for the 1st Photo Mapping Charting Reconnaissance [Annotator's Note: 1st...

Returning home and being discharged from the Marine Corps was bittersweet for Edgar Cole. At the time prejudice was...

Gerald Kynett returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], where he was held up for some time....

William “Bill” Knapp was born in July 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He moved from there to a farm in Allerton, Iowa when...

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

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

Although Archibald Higgins thought he would fly home. That did not happen. He sailed on a ship from Manila. The voyage...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

Delewski still hears from different people from the Laffey. After the war he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and got...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior served at many bases during the war [Annotator's Note: as a member of (MTB RON...

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