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Billy Grieves rode the Falcon [Annotator's Note: US Navy submarine rescue ship USS Falcon (AM-28 /ASR-2)] down to New...

The war made James Roland Westbrook a better person. He had not finished high school, so went home to Mississippi and...

Ralph Marcarelli saw nothing but jungle when he landed at Milne Bay, New Guinea. He came from the city to the jungle....

After David Lamar Mealor contracted a bad case of jungle rot in New Guinea, he was shipped back to the United States on...

James Shelton Scales trained recruits until the middle of 1943, when he received orders to report to Camp Pendleton,...

Floyd Annas had always wanted to fly and enlisting in the Army Air Corps was a way to do it. He was sent to Miami Beach...

When Woods would go into Times Square young servicemen would give them trouble about why they weren't in the service....

James Born commented on the damage he saw in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan]. Many of the buildings were damaged...

Soon after being drafted into the Army, Richard Jaccarino was sent to Camp Upton at the end of Long Island, New York...

After Leyte, Harper Gruber's vessel [Annotator's Note: USS YMS-339] took part in the second invasion [Annotator's Note...

Henry Ratcliff was most affected by the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also called shimbu-...

After two years in the Army, Paul Kerchum was discharged, but re-enlisted for another overseas deployment. His second...

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