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When Julian Trist Bringier McConnell was leaving Panama for the Pacific, his PT Boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo...

There was a radioman on Harper Gruber's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS YMS-339] who would pick up the world news and...

Joseph Townsend wanted to join the Marine Corps. His mother objected. His father had served in the Army in the First...

James Bollich was on one of the first ships to take prisoners from the Philippines. The Japanese put 2,000 men into a...

Emiline Ann Bourgeois went to nurses' school [Annotator's Note: Hotel Dieu School of Nursing in New Orleans, Louisiana...

After being inducted and receiving his uniforms at Camp Grant, Illinois, Robert Jarvis was interviewed by Army officers...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

Emmett Guderian served in the occupation of Japan. He saw the remains of bombed towns. He worked with Japanese on...

Harvey Mittleman and his unit [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was...

John Gehrett was sent to a Navy supply school in conjunction with Harvard Business School [Annotator's Note: at Harvard...

John Caraway stayed in the reserves and was called up when the Korean War broke out. In October 1950, he shipped out of...

[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as a coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Okinawa [...

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