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Gordon Tadewaldt recalled that he wanted to join the Navy because he wanted to fight like the rest of his friends. He...

Arthur Jackson was born in Cleveland and grew up in Canton, Ohio. His father was a watch maker and eventually ended up...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Griffith was a member of Company A, 6th Ranger Battalion and took part in the Raid at...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: An American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] was...

Philip Schweitzer finds it hard to describe the feelings he experienced when he returned home and saw his mother and...

When Benjamin Hagans was on the ship coming back, his teeth started to settle. He put on 17 pounds in three weeks. He...

William Barnes was sent home on leave after returning to the United States from the Pacific. He enjoyed seeing his...

William J. Twigger was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lived his entire life there. He was the eldest of four...

George Colburn only heard scuttlebutt [Annotator's Note: a period slang term for a rumor]. He was just a Private and...

After Baptiste left the Solomons he was sent to new construction. He was sent to the hospital because he lost his...

Emil Schoonejans was born in 1925 in West Hoboken, now Union City, New Jersey. He lived in Union City until 1942 when...

[Annotator's Note: James Billingsley went ashore on Luzon, Philippines, on 31 January 1945.] Billingsley made his way...

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