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Michael Maziarczyk remembers the Navy starting the bombardment at four in the morning. They made a hospital on the...

When Childers strapped in he said over the radio that it was his birthday and that he wanted to celebrate.Three of the...

James Franklin Young was sent to Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in Beaufort...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. was born in December 1923 in Hoxie, Arkansas. His mother was a telephone operator and his...

Harold Joslin joined the Navy around 1939. He liked the idea of going to sea. He also really wanted to get off the farm...

After high school in San Francisco, California, Peter Paret entered the University of California at Berkley. He...

When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After a couple of...

Joseph Burrell could see all of the damage from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] made fire...

Randall Edwards retired from the Navy and got a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. In...

[Annotator's Note: Michael Mervosh served in the USMC in Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

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