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Walter Atwood took a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] home. One night, the...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

Hugh Wingo was born in August 1918 in South Carolina. When he was 13 years old, they moved to North Carolina. He lived...

Henry Bourgeois' first air to air combat was over Bougainville. When the dive bombers went into their dive, the entire...

Claude Shannahan didn't meet any Paramarines at Bloody Ridge. They got beat up landing on Guadalcanal. The rations on...

In preparation for hitting the beaches, Joe Clapper said a soldier's main concern is that he has enough ammunition. He...

Robert Lowe was at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and was sent to Palmyra Atoll for two years of guard duty. They took a radar...

Given 30 days survivor leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], Donald Herbert Shown...

Richard Keller did not get promoted to captain until after they were in combat. They went straight into the jungle to...

Billy Grieves made 11 runs on the submarine Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)]. He left the Thresher...

One of the replacements sent to James Goodrich's squad was killed before Goodrich ever got his name because he did not...

Frederick Haack was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York in 1920] and grew up in Wyoming where...

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