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Charles “Chuck” Wisher grew up fast in the service. Many young men he has seen could benefit from that. Wisher liked...

Charles Chartier returned to the United States around Christmas of 1946. The trip home was a lot shorter than the trip...

Bruno S. Rinas discussed joining the service with a younger brother. He joined the military in 1940 at Fort Snelling [...

Claire Maddox went ashore [Annotator's Note: as a member of ACORN-21, after the Battle of Eniwetok, 17 to 23 February...

Edgar Eugene "Gene" Fricker had his boot camp training in San Diego, California. Even though he was in the Navy, he was...

Ben Ray Bost's most memorable experiences of the war are his two combat landings at Ormoc [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was born in June 1924 in Schenectady, New York. He was a senior in high school and had just...

For William Winter, basic training was different [Annotator's Note: different than his previous experiences at Ole Miss...

Allen Horton returned to his memory of life on the USS Nevada (BB-36). He said the Nevada had been at Pearl Harbor, and...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

Louis John Walter left San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] aboard the William G. Fargo [...

A submarine was the first nuclear-powered vessel and the Nautilus' [Annotator's Note: USS Nautilus (SSN-571] reactor...

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