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Williams Riggs was born in Somerset, Texas in January 1925. He grew up working on a farm and vowed he would never go...

Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

Kenneth A. Lafleur was born in May 1923 in Ville Platte [Annotator's Note: Ville Platte Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

Crain was 1 of the seaman in the boat. They were on a transport ship originally. When Crain was on the transport ship...

After graduating from Officer Candidate School, Benjamin Albert Glusing became a second lieutenant and was given orders...

They did not know the exact cause of his death since he was in halfway decent shape but initially they were told his...

Clyde Barber later completed two tours of duty in Vietnam [Annotator's Note: Vietnam War, or Second Indochina War, 1...

Mitchell Zimmer liked the idea of sailing on a smaller boat like a submarine. He was trained in New London, Connecticut...

After Arthur Jackson got back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Okinawa...

The day the affair took place [Annotator's Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19-20 June 1944] they had not had...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

Occasionally, there were some funny things that happened in the prison camp, according to Randall Edwards. The...

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