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Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

Following the war's conclusion, Claude Taylor sailed aboard LSM-352 [Annotator's Note: LSM stands for Landing Ship,...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Edward F. Kent married his wife in November 1942 while he was at Camp Carson [Annotator’s Note: Camp Carson, Colorado...

On Guadalcanal, Ira Schilling and Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment faced some enemy air raids and naval...

Walter Bud Gafford [Annotator's Note: while serving aboard the USS Maryland (BB-46)] witnessed combat off Okinawa [...

Jack Skaggs and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] from Wake Island were marched about five miles to...

Grant Ichikawa was first taken to an assembly center located on a horse racing track near Turlock, California. His...

Hilar Moore arrived at Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19 February through 26 March 1945] and the Navy...

Life aboard ship was just something Charles Bishop and his fellow sailors adjusted to. They worked four hours on and...

Albert Simon was at Woodpecker Ridge in Luzon [Annotator’s Note: Luzon, the Philippines]. They landed on Leyte Island [...

By the end of October 1943, Benjamin Albert Glusing was sending in payroll to get his men paid. He commanded 40 men at...

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