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John E. Smith was born in June 1922 in Magnolia, Arkansas. His father was an Army sergeant and the family moved around...

Robert L. Donovan was drafted. He wanted to enlist in the Air Force. He had hay fever so they did not let him enlist....

Paul Fair remembers it was sandy on the beach of New Guinea, then it turned into a jungle. The weapons he used did not...

At Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Donald Draxler was apprehensive, but not afraid to...

Samuel Malta voyaged from New Zealand to New Caledonia. He imbibed a potent whiskey while at Nouméa. Missing his ride...

William Lutz was not in a combat unit. They trained other units for amphibious landings. They went hunting and fishing...

James Billingsley was on patrol one night in Japan. He went into a train station and there was nothing there, but kids...

When John H. Cole got home, he returned to the farm and realized it was not the way he would make his living. He tried...

James Gulotta did not have any friends to keep up with after the war. They were all either killed or maimed. His unit [...

Peter "Pete" Behr was born in Fresno, California in 1925. His father lost his job during the Great Depression [...

James Thomas Jackson was born in July 1926 in Ponchatoula [Annotator's Note: Ponchatoula, Louisiana] with an older...

Clifford Albert Hahn landed at Baybay on Leyte Island in the Philippines. He saw MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General...

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