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The Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 through 1953] broke out in June 1950 and James Shelton Scales did not realize he...

Milton Fernandez was born in September 1924 in Puerto Rico. He had eight siblings in his family. His father had a meat...

James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

On arrival in San Francisco, California, James Morehead reported to headquarters, and didn't like the planes he would...

Irwin Schneider arrived at Hollandia just after the landings there. There was no opposition to the assault. He had not...

[Annotator's Note: Floyd Annas was training for air sea rescue at Keesler Field, now Keesler Air Force Base, in Biloxi...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer's Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...

Camp Bowie [Annotator's Note: in Brownwood, Texas] was a major camp that could handle several regiments. At the same...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

Edward F. Kent would like to tell younger people to listen to what other people have to say. He believes that World War...

They [Annotator's Note: David Thomason and the other survivors of the USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733) which had been sunk...

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