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When Alexander Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when his parachute opened up. He...

Paul Amrod arrived on the southern beaches of Okinawa to aggressive Japanese artillery fire. There was still heavy...

William O’Brien remembers serving at the Panama Canal [Annotator's Note: a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], F. Lincoln Grahlfs received orders to tow away the USS Hugh W. Hadley...

Emiline Ann Bourgeois went to nurses' school [Annotator's Note: Hotel Dieu School of Nursing in New Orleans, Louisiana...

Allen Horton had a long leave on Ulithi, where the mail that had been collecting for some time finally reached the...

Paul Fair was one of ten children. He was born in July 1925 in Arkansas. He was the youngest child. He grew up in...

After joining the Navy, Douglas Holmes Blair was assigned to the USS Hampden County (LST-803). The crew left New...

Mahlen Arledge experienced his first combat on Angaur. He had no idea what to expect in combat. The first night on the...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After a couple of...

[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a rifleman and radio operator in Company B, 1st Marine Raider...

Dale LeBlanc went to boot camp in San Diego. Marines who went to boot camp in San Diego were referred to as Hollywood...

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