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Paul Sparacino thought the explosions were unreal [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5)...

Lenwood Steglich did not want to stay in the Navy after the war. He attended Texas A...

Joseph Barger was assigned as a machinist’s mate in the engine rooms aboard the USS LST-716. After amphibious training...

Whidhelm ended up as the CO of Scouting 8 aboard the USS Hornet. One day while sitting in the ready room Vejtasa...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

A call went out for volunteers and Battery H, 11th Marine Regiment sent five people to the front to help out. Three of...

Arthur Fishman had one sister growing up. His mother died when he was six years old. A few years later, his father...

Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little-known language...

Marvin Hill went to the Parcel Post building in Richmond to enlist, and underwent a physical. He was rejected, and told...

Edward Bale spent the first night on Tarawa sleeping next to a disabled LVT [Annotator's Note: Landing Vehicle, Tracked...

Frank Pryor combated loaded his troopship in Hilo, Hawaii. The fleet came together at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Richard McEwen was born in Silver Creek, New York, and lived there with his parents and two siblings until he was eight...

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