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After he returned to the United States, Robert Lents took a test to go to officers' school, but after he passed, he...

A month after fighting on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...

Thomas Goss was born in 1921 in Yonkers, New York but grew up in Long Island [Annotator’s Note: Long Island, New York...

Emil Schoonejans volunteered for service in the Navy. He originally wanted to go into the air force. He and a buddy...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley why he chose to be a paratrooper.] Billingsley grew up a poor...

Harry Walker Wellford felt queasy much of the time on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)]. He often...

James Warren David remarked how he missed eating fresh eggs, roast beef, gravy, seafood, and cous-cous, and other Cajun...

David Fisher reported for active duty on 23 December 1943 at Camp Beauregard [Annotator's Note: in Pineville, Louisiana...

Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...

Burton Johnson organized POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camps by first getting the engineers to establish a...

Harold C. Cook grew up in Warren, Ohio. He was the youngest in the family. He had a brother who was popular and active...

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