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While Dennis Allen Andrews served on the USS Plunger (SS-179) and USS Plaice (SS-390) during World War 2, he...

After the war, Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] had good reasons to stay in the...

Joe Clapper was in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine...

Walter Bowsher joined the Marines and went to boot camp in San Diego. He attended sea school there and then was...

William Helm Sturman was born in April 1924 in Elida, New Mexico. He had two brothers and two sisters. During the...

That was the end of combat for Harold DeForest. After DeForest got out of the hospital he was supposed to go back to...

Forrest Villarrubia found the weather on Guam to be beautiful while he was stationed there after his tour in Leyte. The...

Nevin Sledge admired the SeaBees [Annotator's Note: Members of US naval construction battalions]. They did everything...

James Bollich was liberated by the Russians. Near the end of the war, the Japanese put out an order for all POWs [...

Charles Chatterton was responsible for orienting new personnel on the vessel [Annotator's Note: USS LCI(L)-334]. A man...

Robert Erskine Hendrick [Annotator's Note: a US Marine aboard the USS Idaho (BB-42)] was sent to the Pacific [Annotator...

Richard Witaker distrusted both civilians and soldiers on the Japanese held island of Okinawa. He once had to remove a...

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