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In boot camp, George Vincent Ross was initially treated as a low-life by the DI [Annotator's Note: drill instructor]....

James Shelton Scales landed on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Battle of Saipan, 15 June to 9 July 1944, Saipan, Mariana...

Richard O'Kane gave William Leibold a nice 35mm camera. O’Kane snuck it in the trunk of Leibold's car one day during a...

George A. Damiano fought in World War 2 because he felt like he should help his country. He felt he did not learn much...

Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...

Emil Kesselman’s discharge date was set for August 1950 and he went home to New York, and to work at Brillo [Annotator’...

Howard Robert Charles was born in Picher, Oklahoma. With environmental issues there, the mines were closed. His father...

When he was in high school, Paul Amrod played baseball as a catcher. In the service, he learned he was not major league...

In 1940, Randall Edwards boarded the submarine tender USS Canopus (AS-9) in Tsingtao, China. The Canopus was a "mother...

Edmund Aziz and his ship [Annotator’s Note: with the USS Reeves (DE-156), converted to an attacked transport as APD-52...

Adolph William Amundson recalled that by the time he arrived at the island [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], the...

Charles Wesley Borders was home when the Japanese surrendered. He celebrated for a week. Borders fell in love with...

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