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Even with his hearing difficulties, Robert Dickinson still jumps when loud noises go off, in just the way he did when...

James J. Hill took all the Marine courses with no problem [Annotator's Note: during Marine Corps boot camp in late 1941...

Clarence Becker was based at Harmon Field, also called Depot Field [Annotator's Note: now Harmon Air Force Base on Guam...

William "Bill" Arthur Pummill was born in Crocker, Missouri in July 1921. He was the eighth of 12 children in the...

When he was fighting the Japanese in the Pacific, Olaf Rose hated the enemy, but as the years have gone by, he admits...

Leslie B. Mason, Junior was on MP [Annotator's Note: military police] duty for a while and then became a jailer [...

Edward Driscoll loved President Truman [Annotator's Note: Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States], and...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

Gerald West was transported from Tulagi to Guadalcanal aboard the USS Colhoun (APD-2). The USS Colhoun was sunk while...

Austin H. Kiplinger went to Anacostia Naval Air Station [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Anacostia...

Frederick Stent was born in August 1923 in Charleston, South Carolina. He did a lot of traveling around the large...

William Burkett served in the war because he did not have a choice. The United States had been attacked. There was no...

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