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After his discharge, Ray Emory went to college to study architecture and graduated from the University of Washington....

John Laster said he would not like to go back through it, but his service during World War 2 was quite an experience,...

Willie Wesley Thompson was drafted into the Navy in 1941 or 1942 and became part of the 14th Special Seabee unit [...

Carey Suratt was born in July 1926 in Dennison, Ohio. His father worked for the Pennsylvania railroad as a fireman. His...

Hopkins was the 33rd plane to take off. It was the 1st time that Hopkins took off carrying a live bomb. After he took...

Pete Brock's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the surrender of the Japanese in 1945 and when his crew...

Curt Simmons was in New Orleans on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day]. In order to get discharged, the...

William Leo Spaetgens returned to Treasure Island near San Francisco after his leave at home. At that point, he was...

After serving aboard the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke DD-4156)], Claude Bufford Shaw was assigned to the Bullard...

Vernon Micheel attacked a Japanese cruiser on the last day of the battle [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Scouting...

Alois Kopp escaped from a sinking Hell Ship and swam to the beach on Burma only to be recaptured by the Japanese. The...

Continuing his sequence of experiences, John Laster described a personal injury that was not the consequence of combat...

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