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Ben Steele knew things were getting tense when he was sent overseas. When he got to Hawaii, he received orders to go to...

Warren Huggins was born in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma in August 1926. He grew up on a farm. It was hard during the...

Edmund Durocher was alone for a while [Annotator's Note: on a ridge on Cape Gloucester, New Britain known as Coffin...

Marine Corps boot camp was not bad for Ed Weber. They needed bodies then, so it was not that bad. Today, boot camp is...

[Annotator's Note: Keith Kiefer was assigned to a Radiological Cleanup detail on Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands while...

Archie Kelley had done very well in high school and had no academic problems at all [Annotator's Note: while attending...

While in captivity, Walter Bowsher received few Red Cross packages, and, of those he received, some of them were...

William Stewart wore fatigues with big pockets. He would keep pocketbooks and would read while he waited in lines. He...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the navy aboard the submarines USS Thresher (SS-200) and USS Lizardfish (SS-...

David Yoho had his first voyage on a tanker shakedown trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia. After the shakedown, the ship went...

Wesley Carroll and his wife raised three children. Their first son, James Stephen, was born in 1948 and was adopted by...

Jack Thornhill was born in Alexandria [Annotator's Note: Alexandria, Louisiana] in 1926. In 1932 the family moved to...

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