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After World War 2, Sam S. McKeel was assigned as quartermaster on LST-492 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank]. He...

Floyd James Reissig arrived at the Harry Lee [Annotator's Note: USS Harry Lee (APA-10)] a week and a half before he...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine began attending school in the internment camp [Annotator's Note: the Santo Tomas...

Robert D. Shaner got off the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-475] and explored [Annotator's Note: after they landed...

Soon after being drafted into the Army, Richard Jaccarino was sent to Camp Upton at the end of Long Island, New York...

William Burkett remembers the Philippines as a pretty country. He drove everywhere. He drove a truck to Manila [...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

When James Bollich was sent to Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines], he was still a mechanic, but he...

Donald Herbert Shown picked up a lifejacket from the grouping he found in nets on the boat deck [Annotator’s Note:...

Ralph Burch thought seeing the Golden Gate Bridge was memorable when he was in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San...

Kenneth Killilea was climbing up a mountain on Saipan when he and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd...

George Peto had a unique experience there [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa] one time while watching kamikazes hitting...

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