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Raymond Birdsall was born in Lockport, Louisiana. In 1941, he went over to the high school because they did not have a...

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

Kenneth Beard was born on a farm in Sullivan, Ohio in March 1922. He took a farm wagon to school and grew up in a home...

William O’Brien remembers serving at the Panama Canal [Annotator's Note: a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific...

Hopkins grew up on a small farm in Georgia. It was a tenant farm. Hopkins father was farming a piece of property that...

Randall Edwards likened the old Chinese army camp where he was held prisoner to a group of American-style hog houses....

George Joseph Sullivan went to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau] in the invasion of the Philippines. There was...

Charles "Chuck" Wisher went through basic training at Sheppard Field in Wichita, Texas. Training was good, but tough....

Arthur Pendleton does not remember who was in the hole with him [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of the Tenaru...

Hugh Ettinger was discharged from the Navy and used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

Carrel Reavis took a train to Wilmington, North Carolina and then a bus to Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville...

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