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Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

When he left the Navy, Carey Suratt worked as a brick man for the Pennsylvania railroad. He helped make coal cars....

Charles Bruce did not come across any enemy planes or ships out in the open waters [Annotator's Note: while serving...

During their return to the United States, John Nicholas and the crew of the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-...

The battle ended on June 21st [Annotators Note: On Okinawa in 1945]. The Sixth Marine Division went on to China. Mack...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

William Lutz hear about the Japanese torturing the Americans. When he returned home, he read about the atrocities...

In 1944, Kenneth A. Lafleur and the 22nd Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force were sent to an airfield in Finschhafen, New...

Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor...

Jack Leaming and the crew of the USS Enterprise (CV-6) left Pearl Harbor and attacked the Marshall Islands in February...

Allen Ray Sibley almost stayed in the Army. He liked being a soldier. He is glad he did not stay in because he would...

Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....

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