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Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: Assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker] arrived in Pearl Harbor [...

Forrest Villarrubia was home from the Pacific by December 1945, but he had to continue in the service because he did...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. remained in the reserves after the war so that he could depart active service earlier. He...

Harold Jones was born in February 1924 in Mead, Colorado and grew up in Greeley, Colorado. He was a Depression [...

George Joseph Sullivan moved from Mbanika [Annotator's Note: Mbanika Island, Solomon Islands] on an APC [Annotator's...

Elmer Koenig wanted to get out of the Navy, but he did not have enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was...

Alex Vraciu scored nine aerial victories during his first tour. His first kill was a Zero at Tarawa while flying with...

The train station manager said that the tracks were blown up and that passage to Yokahama would be impossible. Church...

[Annotator's Note: Harold DeForest served in the Army as a gunner on a 60mm mortar in Company A, 1st Battalion, 129th...

Carrol Smith served in the Marine Corps in 1943 and 1944. He was deployed overseas in short order. The bombs were...

Connick and the USS Lander [Annotator's Note: APA-178] brought supplies to Naha Beach on Okinawa. At one point they...

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