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It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

John Nicholas fought in World War 2 because the guys before him had signed up so he had to do so also. He had to fight...

Horace Trahan was born in January 1927 in Maurice, Louisiana. He had one brother and two sisters. His father owned a...

Angus Francis Mestayer's outfit [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Air Wing] was split in half while he was on Green Island...

[Annotator's Note: Jacklyn Lucas stowed away aboard the USS Deuel (APA-160) on 10 January 1945 for the trip from Pearl...

For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...

Richard Baile's crew all thought alike. They were optimistic. None of them thought they would be shot down. Baile does...

After returning stateside, Adolph Wilson and a group of Marines drove from San Diego to Shreveport. They stopped at...

John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

Aboard ship, Wahlen's platoon leader would talk to his men about what to expect when they landed [Annotators Note: on...

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