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Aboard ship, the head [Annotator's Note: naval slang for toilet or bathroom] was full. Nobody showed any fear...

Frank Pomroy and his fellow Marines walked down to the sandspit at the mouth of the Tenaru River and stared at the dead...

The replacement center was just outside of Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines], and once he was...

After the war ended, Ernest Cowell was sent to Korea [Annotator's Note: with the 20th Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry...

Robert L. Donovan was drafted. He wanted to enlist in the Air Force. He had hay fever so they did not let him enlist....

[Annotator's Note: George Alaniz arrived in San Diego, California after being severely wounded on Attu Island, Alaska...

The picture of Leisey is on half a dozen things that he can think of. He has copies of the picture that go back to 1944...

John Nicholas lost touch with his half brother, George Hamaty, for three years during the war. While Nicholas was on...

William Cart was sent down to Gillespie [Annotator's Note: Gillespie Field, El Cajon, California], an outlying field...

Arthur L. Eads met his wife not long after he returned home from World War 2. He married her in February 1946. He...

Baptiste feels that it is important for there to be a National World War II Museum. If they hadn't done what they did...

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

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