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Paul Fair was assigned to the Heavy Weapons Headquarters Company in the 6th Infantry Division. They were supposed to...

Lionel Lopez took a small ship out of Panama. They were headed north to San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator. He reported aboard the battleship USS...

The Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)] had torpedo problems on most of her runs. Billy Grieves kept an...

Trinidad Ledesma feels that some of the kamikazes were fanatics and some were not. One had landed on Mindanao,...

Fighting in the Leyte Valley area lasted for two brutal months, and John Smith related the tale of the event that...

Louis R. Lepore joined the Marine Corps in September 1942 and retired in May 1971 after 29 years of service. Lepore...

After being separated from the Army at Fort Meade, Maryland on 6 March 1946, Lester Caplan used the G.I. Bill to...

Woods was a wiper in the engine room. There were 15 wipers aboard large ships. The wipers reported to the 1st Mate....

Harold Ward was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in April 1921. Ward had the life of a bastard growing up as he was...

While on Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Solomon Islands], the island was not fully secured. Haney...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was...

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