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Aristide "A.D." Durio and his unit [Annotator's Note: 43rd Infantry Division] was loading up to invade Japan. His...

When John H. Cole got home, he returned to the farm and realized it was not the way he would make his living. He tried...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

Emil Schoonejans volunteered for service in the Navy. He originally wanted to go into the air force. He and a buddy...

Robert Cahoon briefly stayed on Biak in the Netherlands East Indies [Annotator's Note: in May 1944, Cahoon left New...

Robert Erskine Hendrick did not find it too difficult to readjust to civilian life. He worked in the circulation...

Thomas Francis Schicker and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Fred Bronfin adjusted easily to military life but felt he was losing time in his career. To differentiate between...

Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great...

Around 8:15 or 8:20 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of 16 April 1945] the first 4 Japanese kamikaze planes heading...

[Annotator's Note: Malcolm Ernest was a prisoner of war at Camp O'Donnell on Luzon, Philippines.] Ernest was among a...

James Oney was discharged 30 November 1946 [Annotator's Note: as a Ship's Cook 1st Class]. He thought about a career....

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