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Retracing his steps, Steve McMurray mentioned that on the way back from Iwo Jima he did a lot of pencil portraits of...

Earl Dean Browning holds up a book that he put together after he came home from the service [Annotator's Note: in...

Nobuo Hayashi remembers when the Americans arrived in their jeeps playing jazz music. He did not trust them at first...

Charles Watkins Adair was sent to Nadzab, New Guinea [Annotator's Note: Nadzab Airfield in Lae, Papua New Guinea with...

Noah Lewis was drafted and inducted into the Navy in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was examined by military doctors and then...

After returning to his carrier, Norman Kleiss got a cup of coffee and prepared for his next flight. About that time a...

Henry Quinton Pike returned to the United States to be trained as a platoon instructor but he did not like that duty....

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

Edmund Durocher spent three months on Pavuvu. The Marine brass cut the division [Annotator's Note: the 1st Marine...

Bruno S. Rinas arrived in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], but was not allowed to go home....

William Burkett recalls that the Army was segregated. Court martials were given based on rules dating from 1912. Then...

Ray Anthony returned to Cleveland after the war. He began to organize his own band recruiting former Navy bandmembers...

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