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Robert L. Rorschach enlisted in the Navy and attended Midshipman School at Prairie State, and spent time aboard the...

Leo Denault was always singing in the shower. He loved music. They put on a show. They built a stage with a roof on it...

Marvin Martin’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was being in Japan during occupation. He also remembers when...

Erik Johnsen was in school at Tulane, University in New Orleans, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He feels this...

David Harvey would be assigned liberty depending on what side of the ship he was on, port or starboard. Passes were...

Nick Cristiano has no idea where his Japanese prison guards went when the war ended. A whole new crew came in. The new...

On his second day on Iwo Jima, Japan, William Wayne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th...

Thomas Francis Schicker heard that they changed course four different times [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS General...

Louis Conter enjoyed knowing both Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. He enjoyed Bob Hope the most as he was the serviceman's...

At the end of the war, Donald F. Goyette says, the United States could put 130 B-29s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29...

Emmett Kaylor's time in basic training was his first time in the South where they talked a little different. Their...

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