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Burton Johnson remembers when he heard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Harry Truman was not a surprise as...

Carroll Harris and the 1st Platoon [Annotator's Note: 1st Platoon, 7th Scout Company (Provisional), 7th Infantry...

Tyler was 27 or 28 when he went to Hawaii. Hawaii was a pleasant place. There were alerts but Tyler never heard about...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz fired the machine guns [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Patterson (DD-392)] for the first time...

John Wesley Tatum was in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division when they landed on...

Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Tarawa, 20 to 23 November 1943 at Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands] was a morale...

On the 1 April [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1942] they passed under the Golden Gate Bridge. The men were all excited...

The 24th [Annotator's Note: 24 December 1941] was the same; no water and no food. They could barely talk. On the...

Jack Skaggs was changed by World War 2. He was just a boy when he entered the United States Marine Corps, but he had no...

Judge James Gulotta was born in November 1923 and grew up in New Orleans. He went through the depression years which...

Jimmie Dyer enlisted to fight in World War 2 because he thought that the country needed to fight. He never questioned...

Air Corps training for Lincoln Piazzo consisted of primary, basic and advanced programs, and was conducted in three...

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