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Hilar Moore was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands], which was the forward base for the...

Being a submariner prepared Billy Grieves for his career as a firefighter. After seeing the worst, everything else is...

Forrest Villarrubia was home from the Pacific by December 1945, but he had to continue in the service because he did...

Glenn Frazier entered a compound after the long Bataan Death March. The marchers were so fatigued that they simply...

Lenwood Steglich never talked about his time in the Navy. His family never asked him about it. His three grandchildren...

Burton Johnson was born in Providence, Rhode Island in May 1920. His parents delivered groceries to families even...

One morning, Richard Thelen saw a plane fly over him and he knew that he was about to be rescued [Annotator's Note: USS...

Romus Burgin was born in Jewett, Texas and stayed there until he graduated high school in 1941. He joined the Marine...

Francis John "Dick" Varone had not spoken much about his wartime experiences until he joined a group of other veterans...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings always had a soft spot for the Marblehead [Annotator's Note: USS Marblehead (CL-12)]. It...

In 1944 as a senior in high school, Howard Cain avoided the draft by enlisting in the Army Air Force. He was gung-ho...

Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

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