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[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

By 1944 Harold Ward had added some stripes to his arm. Ward was transferred to an AK ship, a big liberty ship [...

Eugene Corson went to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22 June...

Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...

Returning to Maui [Annotator's Note: returning to Maui, Hawaii from Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] was the first...

Pedro Parra feels that most veterans of the war did not talk too much about it. The young people have no idea what it...

Mahlen Arledge saw replacements come into his division in Leyte. [Annotator's Note: Arledge was a member Company K, 3rd...

Thomas Francis Schicker went to Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] and did maneuvers offshore...

Richard Bennett thinks World War 2 doesn't mean much to today's Americans, except for a small amount of appreciation....

Clarence Strobel believes his service in World War 2 was necessary. He made good friends and realized that he was a...

William C. Ellzey’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15...

Oran Harris was born in Hartford, Tennessee in September 1924. His childhood home was near the Smoky Mountains, about...

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