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Phoutrides took part in the Normandy invasion. He knew what was happening but couldn't understand the enormity of the...

G.I.s from John Smith's Battery B, 61st Field Artillery were transferred to form C Battery 271st Field Artillery...

George A. Damiano recalled the rainy weather while on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], and that it was hard...

Claude Bufford Shaw spent his entire wartime service in the Pacific, except for two short trips to the United States to...

Wim de Jonge could tell when he left Holland for the East Indies that war was looming. He was not concerned with...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] and her...

Coming back to the United States was kind of boring for Robert D. Shaner. They [Annotator's Note: Shaner and the crew...

After three months in Japan, Edward Bale had the necessary points to rotate back to the United States. He left Nagasaki...

James Wilson recuperated and was taken to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Guadalcanal...

William Burkett was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] was not hard...

[Annotators Note: Charles Bishop served in the navy aboard the destroyer USS Cummings (DD-365) then later aboard the...

Ira Schilling killed a Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal with a shotgun. In the morning, before the Marines moved out...

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