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Quintana was born in McComb, Mississippi on December 15th, 1921. McComb was a railroad town. The majority of the...

Everything Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. learned as an officer in the Marine Corps prepared him for the rest of his life. [...

When Alexander Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when his parachute opened up. He...

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

Robert Lewter was inducted in Georgia. From there he got on a train to Camp Polk, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: now Fort...

After basic training, James Franklin Young was sent to New River, North Carolina and placed in the Fleet Marine Force....

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. saw that he [Annotator’s Note: then US Marine Corps Major; later Brigadier General, James...

Frederick Grun was born in March 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of four children. His father was an...

William Stewart was sent to Washington state to work on the radar in flying box cars. He made corporal as an auto...

Clyde Barber was a member of Patrol Squadron 11 (VP-11) which flew PBYs [Annotator’s Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina]...

John Ream remembers that in December 1944, the Japanese decided to move them. [Annotator’s Note: the Japanese were...

Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] died 12 April [Annotator's...

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