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Basic training was rough for Raymond Loidolt. He was 18. It was lot of climbing with full packs on. Once you go through...

[Annotators Note: Charles Bishop served in the navy aboard the destroyer USS Cummings (DD-365) then later aboard the...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Higgins served in the US Marine Corps in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

The only thing Phineas Stevens remembers about Corregidor [Annotator's Note: Corregidor Island, Luzon, Philippines] is...

Arthur Fishman's bunk [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Robinson (DD-562)] was near the engine room below deck. He...

Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

James Wilson shows the helmet he had on [Annotator's Note: when he was shot while serving with Company G, 2nd Battalion...

Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

Ralph Marcarelli had his best experience back in the United States when he entered Seattle [Annotator's Note: Seattle,...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Griffith was a rifleman in Company A, 6th Ranger Battalion and took part in the Raid at...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

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