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Edward Chinnis was ready to go home after the war but he did have a lot of fun in the Navy. After leaving the Navy, he...

Tenney joined the National Guard in November of 1940. He joined to get his year of service completed before the draft...

Jack D. Samuelson continued at Occidental [Annotator’s Note: he was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles,...

Lyle Bird was assigned as a signalman and bugler aboard the USS Okanogan (APA-220) in the Pacific at the end of the war...

Milton L. McMullen, Sr. was able to start his journey back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being a...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer was known as "Chub" through high school. He was born in Abilene, Kansas, in March 1926. His...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was on Pavuvu [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu, Russell Islands with the 1st Marine Division]. He never...

Malcolm Ernest was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in June 1916. He was at Nichols Field in Manila [Annotator's Note:...

William C. Ellzey, a corpsman in the US Navy, evacuated the wounded from Pacific islands and brought them back to the...

Thomas Francis Schicker had his 19th birthday at Ulithi. He became friends with Leo Schmidtkin [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: A person off camera comments in the background throughout this clip.] Harry A. Donovan became a...

Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

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