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Melvin S. Tanenbaum [Annotator's Note: a radioman aboard the USS Leon (APA-48)] was part of the invasion at Okinawa [...

James Patterson was called up on 23 February 1943. He was sent to boot camp with a bunch of other reservists. They...

For the invasion of Peleliu, Charles Womack and the other Marines transferred off the ship into amtracs [Annotator's...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

James Shelton Scales landed on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Battle of Saipan, 15 June to 9 July 1944, Saipan, Mariana...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior could not initially enter Navy flight school because of the number of new potential...

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

John Cassidy majored in mining engineering during his first year at the University of Alabama, but he eventually...

William Stewart was sent to Washington state to work on the radar in flying box cars. He made corporal as an auto...

Alvin Sniff did numerous trips to the Mediterranean Sea while he was a career Navy man. He recalled when the Navy...

[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...

Wanda Damberg was born of a Dutch father who served as a diplomat in the Philippines starting in 1916. He met Damberg’s...

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