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Schuyler Lininger was born in Evanston, Illinois in October 1923. Lininger had one older brother and one younger sister...

George Vincent Ross was born in September 1926 in Albany, New York. He grew up there. He had one brother, Edward, and...

After the landings on Leyte, Philip Nelson returned to Hawaii. He was assigned to an amphibious training base, ATB-900...

The ship that the Laffey relieved had been there a week and never got hit. They got off of the coast of Okinawa on a...

Nevin Sledge remembers people were going crazy in Honolulu [Annotator’s Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] after they heard the...

After Michael Mervosh helped his wounded friends in the foxhole he realized that he had lost his hearing [Annotator's...

Charles Womack and every other Marine on the island were fully aware that they were headed for Japan after the fighting...

Robert S. Gibbs was separated [Annotator's Note: discharged] in November 1945. He entered college in January 1946 at...

Clyde Nordstrom did a lot of sightseeing in Japan. He visited a Shinto temple and just roamed around. He thought the...

Abner Aust was at Iwo Jima, Japan when the Japanese formally surrendered. He was the first pilot to go home on 11...

John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: part of an intelligence and reconnaissance team known as the Alamo Scouts, the US 6th...

Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...

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