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Sidney Philips remembers being in San Diego for two weeks [Annotators Note: after returning from his combat tour in the...

George A. Damiano was ordered to pick up the dead Japanese [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan], but he refused to do...

Having participated in several amphibious landings as a combat swimmer, Robert Judd discusses that after their initial...

Bailey feels that war should be over with. His division fought the Chinese in North Korea. Young men are fighting today...

Admiral Mitscher [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Marc Andrew "Pete" Mitscher] was aboard Warren Nolan's ship [...

John Edmund Murman, assigned to the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103), left Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Prior to shipping out, Sammy Ray's professor and advisor from Louisiana State University, Doctor Lowry, put him in...

Jack Taylor was well pleased flying F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft] fighter planes. The...

David Yoho remembers the huge fleet off Okinawa and the explosion of an ammunition ship. It had been attacked by a...

Firman Balza was transferred off the ship on 7 April 1944, and watched the Maryland [Annotator's Note: USS Maryland (BB...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

Among his other responsibilities, Robert Gurr managed several newspaper routes during World War 2. As a paperboy, he...

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