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Charles "Chuck" Wisher was born in Toledo, Ohio in February 1926. His father was in construction so at five years of...

James Warren David remembered that the ship was full of people. The beds stacked nine bunks high. He recalled that he...

Bruno S. Rinas was born in Towner County, North Dakota, in January 1919. He had 12 siblings, but two died in infancy,...

William Lutz thought there would be more firing of weapons. He sat behind a machine gun. It was different from the...

Albert Simon fought for his country. He was drafted. He fought for the United States flag. He changed from a civilian...

Dave Severance remembers the Marine Corps having 18,000 men at the time of his enlistment. He made corporal four times...

While on occupation duty, Louis R. Lepore first stayed on the water front in Sasebo [Annotator's Note: Sasebo, Japan]....

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] was...

Harold Zeringer returned to New Orleans in March 1946 and embarked on a concentrated law school effort. He took three...

After the conclusion of World War 2, William Riggs' only thought upon arriving home was to seek out a job away from the...

John Geiger remembers when he was in New Guinea [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance...

Everett Hyland was on the radio gang on the Memphis [Annotator's Note: USS Memphis (CL-13)]. They picked up 200...

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