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When Lincoln Piazzo deployed for overseas service, he was flown from San Francisco, California to New Guinea without...

Francis John "Dick" Varone wanted to stay in the Marine Corps while he was overseas [Annotator's Note: with the 5th...

Michael Maziarczyk was ready to return home. It took them 12 hours to get from Hawaii to San Francisco [Annotator’s...

Ben Steele joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. He was raised on a cattle ranch north of Billings [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: Sumner Whitten served in the USMC as a pilot flying Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator dive bomber with Marine...

Wilbur Rogers said that everything he did [Annotator's Note: during his time in the US Navy] was before he was 21 years...

When Calvin Barrick was going to submarine school in New London he signed up for the Navy's V-12 program which was...

John Geiger was born in Newark, New Jersey in April 1923. He had two sisters. His father was a contractor for trucking...

Clarence Robert Duff recalled the USS Benham (DD-796) was on picket duty the night the first atomic bomb was dropped....

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was assigned to the USS Patterson (DD-392) docked in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor,...

William Pierce remembers a buddy being wounded on Okinawa. It was the same buddy who had fired a shot erroneously and...

Raymond Hayes got word of the war ending before he left San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] for Pearl [...

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