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James J. Hill lived through one tough experience. It was the mission that Pappy was shot down [Annotator’s Note: later...

Lawrence Brooks followed the war while he was in service. One of the islands he was on had Japanese pillboxes. The...

James Paul Lynch was on the Wainwright [Annotator's Note: USS Wainwright (DD-419)] until June 1942 in the North...

Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

Joseph Brannan remembered that the PT-305 had three engines but after living on it for about a year, he could not...

Yellin taxied and saw mounds of Japanese bodies [Annotator's Note: on Iwo Jima]. Bulldozers were pushing the bodies...

Woods did well in school. He could have gone on to any of the advanced training schools but he volunteered to go out as...

Most of William Earl Gast and his unit's [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank Battalion, 30th Infantry Division]...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson's [Annotator's Note: a radioman on the USS Balao (SS-285)] second patrol scored six hits, severely...

Arthur George Green’s unit [Annotator’s Note: the 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division] was taken out of the...

William Lansford and the other Marine Raider recruits were taken to Jacques Farm where they began their training. The...

Ray Felts married in late 1949 to a girl he met at church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He didn't have much trouble getting back...

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