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Paris Tognoli wonders how he made it. He pondered that many times in his life. He got to go home. When he landed in the...

Bloody Ridge had other names but that night it was officially named Bloody Ridge. It was the one spot that the Japanese...

World War 2 made Whayland Harvel Greene appreciate food, water, and shelter. He had no food for five days during his...

After gunnery training, Clarence Lee "Jack" Dobbs was sent to a staging area in Lincoln, Nebraska, then to Harvard,...

On the troop ship out of Pearl Harbor, Holly Rees said there was little to do, and the soldiers played cards and got...

George A. Damiano recalled the weather [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] being so wet that they had to talk their...

When Rosemarie Weber finished high school, she met a priest named Father John. Father John suggested that she look up...

Claude Shannahan got out of the Marine Corps and returned to Mount Clemens, Michigan. His father owned a bar and...

Garland Miller Gallaspy [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 161st Parachute Engineer Battalion, 503rd Parachute...

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine on the SS Dolly Madison. He doesn't recall the cargo on his first trip...

Clayton Hall was pinned down [Annotator's Note: with Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

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