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Tenney, Lester Segment 1
Tenney joined the National Guard in November of 1940. He joined to get his year of service completed before the draft...
Whitaker, Harold Joining the Merchant Marine
Harold Whitaker and a few friends went up to San Francisco in the summer of 1945 and joined the Merchant Marine. They...
Nakagawa, Ittsei Postwar Kure and Back to the United States
[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...
Blair, Douglas Growing Up in Oregon to Joining the Navy
Douglas Holmes Blair was born in December 1925 in Roseburg, Oregon with one brother and a half-brother. Both of his...
Pomroy, Frank Treating a Wounded Marine and Being Evacuated
Frank Pomroy went back to get the wounded Marvin Hattan who was screaming and moaning from his wounds [Annotator's Note...
Schweitzer, Philip Education and Postwar Life
Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...
Johnsen, Erik Merchant Marine Training
Erik Johnsen's training in the US Merchant Marine at Henderson Point, Mississippi was very similar to that of a raw...
Ratcliff, Henry The Philippines and War's End
Henry Ratcliff reached Mindoro [Annotator's Note: Mindoro Philippines, as a member of the 860th Aviation Engineer...
Leaming, Jack Liberation
On 1 June 1945, 800 B-29s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] and B-17s [Annotator's Note:...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 7
Alexander Vraciu and the other members of his squadron [Annotators Note: Fighting Squadron 16 (VF 16)] were in their...
Wicklund, John After Effects
On the day after V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], John Wicklund and a friend went to...

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