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Glen Kuskie had survived being a Japanese prisoner of war in the Philippines and he finally returned to the United...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker goes by Gene because he liked being greeted that way. He was born in June 1926 in Cushing,...

Ray Dennis Irby turned 17 in 1941. He was in the backyard of his home in Meridian [Annotator's Note: Meridian,...

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

Harold Zeringer arrived at Pearl Harbor after convoy duty from the west coast. He saw the Arizona [Annotator's Note:...

After William Earl Gast left the field hospital, he searched for his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank...

The level of camaraderie began to diminish because they were dealing with different people. If they hadn't gotten...

[Annotators Note: Robert Addison served in the USMC as a mortar man in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] Edson [...

Frederick Ellis and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-751] went back and forth among the islands in the Pacific on...

Sam S. McKeel served in the Navy as a fire director controlman on the forward twin 40 mm Bofors guns [Annotator's Note...

William Barnes was sent home on leave after returning to the United States from the Pacific. He enjoyed seeing his...

Joseph Brannan reached Tulagi on the USS Niagara (AGP-1) [Annotator's Note: the USS Niagara (PG-52) was redesignated...

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