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The ship Melvin Abadie was assigned to [Annotator's Note: USS Appalachian (AGC-1)] was one of 18 ships that took troops...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

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

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

Fernando Serna was liberated from a prisoner of war camp after the war. He was treated by doctors and nurses following...

In this segment, Jones remembers that while they didn’t know specifics about the atomic bomb, they knew something was...

George A. Damiano recalled the weather [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] being so wet that they had to talk their...

Leaving Okinawa, Robert Knudson shipped back to San Diego, California in the fall of 1945, then got a 30 day leave. His...

On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotators Note: 15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the...

Monroe Scherer took advantage of the G.I Bill and went to NYU [Annotator's Note: New York University, New York, New...

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot with Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in the...

Jack Thornhill and the interviewer have just been reminiscing. He can remember things that happened to him when he was...

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