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Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. started his Navy service on 30 October 1942 at Columbia University [Annotator's Note: in...

Alvin Barnes rode out a typhoon off Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Purdy (...

World War 2 made Alfred A. Lingo rethink about how to react to things. He learned to control his emotions in order to...

Wiley relates that at the time of the hit and run carrier raids, they had more aircrew than airplanes. Being a new...

Lester Hecht's wife [Annotator's Note: Lillian] did not mind moving back in with her parents, when Hecht went to war....

The main difference between a jailer, which Alfred Dearman was, and a guard, is that the jailer is in the cellblock...

James D. Comeaux was born in August 1926 in Crowley, Louisiana and grew up in nearby Egan, Louisiana. He did a lot of...

Jack Yusen remembers the shells flying by sounded like freight trains and the explosions sounding like thunder. Another...

Lazarick heard President Roosevelt's speech [Annotator's Note: Roosevelt's speech to Congress which he gave on 8...

By May 1944, David R. Saunders had joined the Army and was sent to Camp Beauregard [Annotator's Note: in Pineville,...

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

When Dale LeBlanc heard the news that the battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa] was over he was relieved. One...

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