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[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin was a tail gunner on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber in the 53rd...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm was born in August 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up there until he enlisted in the...

Archibald Higgins would do all that he did in the war once again if it was necessary. He thought about staying in the...

Andrew Leblanc joined the Army because most of his friends were in the Army. He did not pick the Navy because he did...

William Cart was born in April 1922 in Charleston [Annotator's Note: Charleston, South Carolina]. He grew up on the...

James McEnery was sent to a naval base in Norfolk, Virginia. While he was in Norfolk a national state of emergency was...

James D. Comeaux’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was watching the massacre of U.S. troops on Okinawa [...

The Japanese had snipers and other soldiers in the Philippines before the invasion [Annotator's Note: Fall of the...

Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...

Wallace Spencer remembers when they were under attack. All the guns were firing. The crew was sitting there watching...

John Gehrett reached Sydney [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit, Gehrett reached Sydney,...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

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