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Ruffin Walker Dawson [Annotator's Note: with the 51st Defense Battalion] found out he was going overseas in February...

Kenneth A. Lafleur was born in May 1923 in Ville Platte [Annotator's Note: Ville Platte Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

William C. Ellzey, a corpsman in the US Navy, evacuated the wounded from Pacific islands and brought them back to the...

Carrol Smith served in the Marine Corps in 1943 and 1944. He was deployed overseas in short order. The bombs were...

With no working equipment to run or steer the USS Cavalier (APA-37) after it was torpedoed, Edward Lee Allesandro said...

Quintana was born in McComb, Mississippi on December 15th, 1921. McComb was a railroad town. The majority of the...

Kenneth Dwight Wells was shipped to the Pacific in November 1944 aboard the USS O.H. Ernst (AP-133) [Annotator's Note:...

John Mikus, Jr. was born in Meadow Lands, Pennsylvania in October 1921. His father was a coal miner. Mikus had seven...

Richard O'Hara took a train with eight others to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. They did not know...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin was a tail gunner on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber in the 53rd...

Joe Morris and his unit [Annotator's Note: 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were part of the...

Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

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