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Back in Hawaii, Richard Nummer participated in the preparations for the invasion of Japan. One of Nummer's fellow...

Melvin C. Whitman and the rest of the artillery [Annotator's Note: Whitman was a member of Battery L, 3rd Battalion,...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer took advantage of the G.I. bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Remembering the first patrol he experienced, Olaf Rose said, "It gets hot, and the boats are coming at you." The PT...

Bill Toledo was sent to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] for boot camp. He was able to keep up with...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine captured by the Japanese at Guam, Mariana Islands] and his fellow...

Windom Joseph Burton was an aviation metalsmith 1st class when he was discharged. He might have received a promotion to...

Francis Bucher was training pilots for night flying [Annotator's Note: at Naval Air Station Ellyson Field, Pensacola,...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

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

When Richard Higgins returned to the United States he went to Quantico to drive a truck. He would drive civilians to...

Jack Leaming sees the war as something they had to live with. They had to do the best they could to be happy and have a...

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