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Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Thompson (DD-627)] gave support to the Rangers [Annotator's Note:...

Charles Taylor was born in December 1923 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Taylor recalls growing up during the Great...

After several months of training, Ernest Barber was sent to Charleston, South Carolina and assigned to the USAHS [...

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

Joseph Hartmann thinks if the United States had another situation like World War 2, he does not think the young people...

Theodore Vallas was happy to know that his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-7)] was going into battle and that he...

The first ship Curt Simmons served aboard was the old Panamanian flagged ship El Murante [Annotator's Note: unsure of...

Cecil N. Duck was born in August 1925 in Bay Minnette, Alabama, and when he was six years old, his family moved to...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

Bob Bartlett [Annotator's Note: assigned to USS Barnett (APA-5)] participated in the invasion of Southern France [...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was assigned to the Tank Landing Ship, USS LST-502 for the invasion of Europe.] Because...

William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

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