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Ralph Marcarelli reacted badly to inoculations when he entered the Navy at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He missed boot...

Floyd James Reissig sailed around Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] towards Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine was born in July 1927 in Baguio, Philippines [Annotator's Note: Baguio, Luzon,...

Richard Jaccarino was born in May 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was still an infant, the family moved to the...

James Newsom was assigned to the USS Sarsfield (DD-837) in New York. The Sarsfield was larger than his previous...

When Orville Bethard graduated from high school he was 19 years old and eligible for the draft. He did not like the...

Leon Griffith was in the Philippines and was hunting Japanese who were on a mountain and firing artillery shells at...

Wanda Damberg was born of a Dutch father who served as a diplomat in the Philippines starting in 1916. He met Damberg’s...

William Hill was born in August 1922 in rural eastern Kentucky. His father, a subsistence farmer, moved the family to...

The invasion at Ormoc Bay was small and consisted mainly of destroyers and rocket firing landing craft.The Laffey [...

Howard Robert Charles participated in the Battle of Sunda Strait [Annotator's Note: as a machine gunner aboard the USS...

Arthur George Green spent about a year on occupation duty in Japan [Annotator’s Note: stationed in Kyushu and Shikoku...

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