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Victor K. Carman joined the Navy because he did not want to be a foot soldier in the Army or Marines. He had flown a...

Aloysius "Al" Arend was born in Chicago, Illinois in November 1925. He grew up and spent much of his life in nearby...

For Allen Tillery, returning to civilian life was not much of an adjustment because it happened so fast. He thought for...

Jump school training was intense for Jacques Brewster Smith. He did a lot of running and swinging exercise. He was...

Edgar Harrell had very little energy and was just hoping for someone to discover him [Annotator's Note: while floating...

Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Gerry Jones recalls when they [Annotator's Note: the 1st Marine Division] went to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu,...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the navy aboard the submarines USS Thresher (SS-200) and USS Lizardfish (SS-...

Harold “Hal” Leith [Annotator’s Note: as a member of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), the forerunner of the...

Lenwood Steglich never talked about his time in the Navy. His family never asked him about it. His three grandchildren...

Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: Assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker] arrived in Pearl Harbor [...

[Annotator's Note: Henry Bourgeois served in the USMC as a pilot flying Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft with Marine...

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