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Samuel Hadjinian was born in Racine, Wisconsin. He graduated from high school in 1942 and worked for a year as a stock...

When the Marines were about half way down Okinawa the Japanese got around behind them. Robert Akins and some of his...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

Ardell Bollinger did not report back to base immediately. Bollinger still has shrapnel in his foot from when he was...

[Annotators Note: Frank Guidone served in the US Marine Corps as a member of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]Guidone...

A few days after arriving in Naples, Italy, Mann was shipped up to Anzio on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship,...

[Annotators Note: Charles Scheffel served in the army as an infantry officer. He was sent to England with five other...

Before the Battle of the Coral Sea , Vejtasa's group got some information on the Japanese base at Rabaul and the...

Baum remembers some of the men in his division. He talks about his feelings towards Creighton Abrams. Abrams was the...

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

David Paul Spencer was not afraid much. It may be strange to hear. In the infantry they just accepted what was going on...

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