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For Archibald Higgins, being away from family and friends was not easy during his service. It took a tough toll on his...

Arnold A. Mirsky's father did not want him to join the Army Air Corps, so when he was accepted, Mirsky did not tell his...

Frank Faust was born in January 1916 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. His father worked for...

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

Charles Watkins Adair was born in Dora, Alabama in 1923. His family moved a lot during the Great Depression [Annotator'...

DeMers was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin on March 3rd, 1915. He had 6 brothers and 6 sisters. All 13 lived to be to...

Hopkins grew up on a small farm in Georgia. It was a tenant farm. Hopkins father was farming a piece of property that...

Jack Thornhill went to see the destroyer on exhibit in Baton Rouge [Annotator's Note: the USS Kidd (DD-661)]. Even...

Robert Freligh’s crewman Sam Plonski was from the Boston area, and Peter Sanchez from the Chicago area. He always flew...

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

Robert J. Ferris was born in January 1922 in Pittsford, New York. He had one older brother. His father worked as a...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi for combat engineer training, which he did not...

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