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David Heath was told the Marines could not use a man with a hole in his stomach, so he was shipped back to Camp...

Mark Maynard’s second war patrol on his submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] used the deck gun to fire...

Fred Wesighan enlisted in the Army after he graduated in high school because he "did not like people kicking around our...

David McKinley Blackwell did not stay in New Guinea long. The terrain was mountainous and covered in jungle. From there...

Leon J. Neiman was born on 20 December 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Neiman and his siblings were all born in the same...

James was born in North Texas in Aberdene. The town is no longer there. He lived there until he was 10 years old. His...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Dietzel served in the USAAF as a copilot on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in the...

When they got to the Marshall Islands they had to go over the side of the ship; that was a hard thing to do. He did not...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

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

Fred Bronfin adjusted easily to military life but felt he was losing time in his career. To differentiate between...

Kenneth Wieland's most memorable experience of the war was coming home. He had served because all the other guys his...

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