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Carrol Smith served in the Marine Corps in 1943 and 1944. He was deployed overseas in short order. The bombs were...

Jump school training was intense for Jacques Brewster Smith. He did a lot of running and swinging exercise. He was...

After the Japanese captured the field hospital where Joseph DeMott was being treated [Annotator's Note: he was wounded...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the invasions of the Marshall and Gilbert...

Bruno S. Rinas remained at the smaller landing strip for a week while he fixed the plane [Annotator's Note: a Seversky...

Louis Block was born in December 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up and went to school there. He lost his mother at...

Elmer Koenig wanted to get out of the Navy, but he did not have enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Griffith was guarding the Florida Keys as a member of the 155th Infantry Regiment, 31st...

Barbara Butler's first installation was on Leyte. Her living quarters were very close to the beach where General...

The Yorktown [Annotators Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] ended up getting the worst of it in the form of aerial and...

After Bougainville, William Lansford went back to the United States. He was a high point guy. Back in the United States...

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