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Wim de Jonge could tell when he left Holland for the East Indies that war was looming. He was not concerned with...

Stanley Fagerstrom was a corporal going into an outfit that was already established in combat. He was attached to...

Richard Nummer experienced the brutality of war on Iwo Jima. He and his buddies witnessed Japanese soldiers lying with...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz fired the machine guns [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Patterson (DD-392)] for the first time...

When Walter Bowsher was at the Post Exchange at San Diego, he found out about a cruel Japanese interpreter being...

[Annotator's Note: Eugene Tarrant served in the Navy as a captain’s mess attendant aboard the USS San Francisco (CA38...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. saw that he [Annotator’s Note: then US Marine Corps Major; later Brigadier General, James...

Paris Tognoli and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 182nd Infantry Regiment, Americal...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

John Caudle was born in January 1926 in a farmhouse in Farmington [Annotator's Note: Farmington, North Carolina]. It...

Sidney Philips remembers being in San Diego for two weeks [Annotators Note: after returning from his combat tour in the...

Samuel Ukrop was not changed a bit by the war. He had no bad dreams of combat although some of his dreams are realistic...

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