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When John H. Cole got home, he returned to the farm and realized it was not the way he would make his living. He tried...

In addition to his weapon, Philip Schweitzer carried two pouches. Because of his rank as a sergeant, Schweitzer carried...

Adolfo V. Celaya returned to the United States and joined his father in a one-bedroom apartment in Tucson [Annotator’s...

Clint Quirk was not assigned to a ship. [Annotator’s Note: Quirk was in the Merchant Marines]. He went into the union...

Joseph Vater did not know what would happen to him after he had to surrender. He felt helpless and stuck. He knew...

[Annotator's Note: Jacklyn Lucas stowed away aboard the USS Deuel (APA-160) on 10 January 1945 for the trip from Pearl...

Richard Higgins left Peleliu and went to Pavuvu and got off the ship. The next day a clerk told Higgins that he was...

After high school, Harold Whitaker was bumming around and getting trouble until his mother and a family friend...

In Hawaii, Garland Virgil Longhoffer was still a replacement. It took time to get out of the United States. The trip to...

While Childers was a cadet he was asked by Colonel Mangrum if he had received a Purple Heart. When he told Mangrum that...

William Wayne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division]...

Jack Leaming and other Allied prisoners of war, POWs, were forced to work by the Japanese after capture. Work details...

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