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After being discharged from the Marine Corps, Bryon Oliver returned home. He returned to his old job, then moved to...

Abner Aust was determined to get 30 years in the service. He had good jobs and he did good jobs. He had good crews who...

James "Jim" Marshall was discharged in 1945 and returned home to Kansas. He had some difficulty adjusting to civilian...

Clyde Nordstrom was discharged in Seattle [Annotator's Note: Seattle, Washington] and went to Minneapolis [Annotator's...

Garland Bath was born in January 1925 in Evans County, Georgia in a log cabin. He attended school there. He got his...

Stewart Bass was trained to be a naval aviator. The first months involved college type training at St. Mary's College...

Before being shipped out as a replacement to the Pacific, Robert Leroy Shirkey was put on guard duty at the wharves in...

The Japanese had steel, concrete, and coral bunkers all over the island [Annotators Note: Peleliu, September 1944]....

Lester Hecht was heading to the invasion of Leyte. Halsey [Annotator's Note: US Navy Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey]...

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox feels bad about the men he left behind on Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. As the...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine captured by the Japanese at Guam, Mariana Islands] was taken [...

Because the war in Europe had begun to die down and the need for additional pilots was decreasing by the time he...

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