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Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...

Armando Galella was born in January 1921 in New York, New York. When he was around four years old, he moved with his...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. remained in the reserves after the war so that he could depart active service earlier. He...

Richard Jaccarino said the war matured him, and he got a better perspective of people from diverse backgrounds. He made...

The Chinese would grab people on the streets and hand them over to the Americans if they were Japanese. George Colburn...

Arthur Jackson had been influenced by Marine pilots and wanted to fly. At the recruiting office he took the aviation...

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

Carrel Reavis was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia. He grew up in the country on a farm. He had a large family, 17 kids...

Paul Fair was assigned to the Heavy Weapons Headquarters Company in the 6th Infantry Division. They were supposed to...

Paul Amrod made a combat landing at Inchon, South Korea, where the occupation took place without a shot fired. His...

Joseph F. McGee Junior's most vivid memory of World War 2 is the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the...

From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

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