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William O’Brien and fellow sailors played cards or slept when they were not working. He had to take classes to get a...

[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...

The first thing they [Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody and his rear seat gunner John Liska] needed was water. Behind...

Keith Kiefer was not sure that college was the right path for him. He considered going into the service. He and two...

Robert S. Gibbs was shipped to Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines, aboard the USS Boston (CA-69)] in October...

Stewart Bass was excited and nervous to fly his first combat mission. He soon calmed down, followed his training and...

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

James Warren David remembered that the ship was full of people. The beds stacked nine bunks high. He recalled that he...

When Mack was going into Okinawa in the Higgins boat, he claims he had a vision. It was a vision of his mother. His...

Francis John "Dick" Varone had not spoken much about his wartime experiences until he joined a group of other veterans...

He took the advice of Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jack Dobbs went right to work, hauling building supplies. He established a...

Peter Gallo was in the construction division in the CCC [Annotator's Note: Civilian Conservation Corps] before going...

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