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Edmund Durocher spent three months on Pavuvu. The Marine brass cut the division [Annotator's Note: the 1st Marine...

Jake Ussery enlisted in Monroe, Louisiana. He was in the Navy but lived in a barracks in Monroe. He trained in a small...

Leon Griffith was born in Magee, Mississippi but raised in Monticello [Annotator's Note: Monticello, Mississippi] on a...

Hopkins finished that phase in September 1941. Hopkins was assigned to Bombing Squadron 4 which operated off of the USS...

Carl Trim did not find it hard to adjust to civilian life. He attended college, while his wife worked. In 1948, Trim...

Kenneth A. Lafleur was born in May 1923 in Ville Platte [Annotator's Note: Ville Platte Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

Walter Groth [Annotator’s Note: stationed in the Philippines] provided fire support in the beginning. Then they were...

When Eugene N. James completed flight training, he was shipped to Sistersville, West Virginia and then on to Cherry...

Arthur Pendleton never claimed his injuries. The system is incredibly wrong. It can be different. Pendleton did ask for...

Alex Vraciu scored nine aerial victories during his first tour. His first kill was a Zero at Tarawa while flying with...

[Annotator's Note: Michael Mervosh served in the USMC in Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

The first island the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) approached was Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Tarawa, Gilbert Islands], and...

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