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[Annotators Note: Robert Addison served in the USMC as a mortar man in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] Edson [...

Thomas Tizzard was assigned to the USS Denver (CL-58) and was interviewed by an officer asking what his previous jobs...

Arnold A. Mirsky was assigned as a navigator for the 1st Photo Mapping Charting Reconnaissance [Annotator's Note: 1st...

Robert M. Solomon remembers that it was very hot during monsoon season. [Annotator’s Note: He was stationed on...

Joseph Brannan had never ridden on a PT boat [Annotator's Note: Patrol Torpedo boat] prior to his assignment to his...

Robert Savage's most memorable experience of the war was seeing the treaty signed [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

Russell Gackenbach had his Army Air Forces basic training in Florida. There were not enough uniforms for the recruits...

After Erik Johnsen graduated from his final training at Kings Point, [Annotator's Note: US Merchant Marine Academy,...

Frederick Jenkins thinks the museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana] is important...

Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...

Clyde Nordstrom went to Fort Snelling [Annotator's Note: in Hennepin County, Minnesota] and said he wanted to enlist....

Walter Broll and his ship the Grace Abbott were in the harbor of Bari, Italy for two weeks before the attack took place...

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