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James W. Metcalf was assigned as turret gunner with the Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the USS Franklin (CV-13). The...

In 1944, Kenneth A. Lafleur and the 22nd Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force were sent to an airfield in Finschhafen, New...

Daniel J. Lawler [Annotator's Note: serving with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in...

Alex Vraciu lost his wing man, Brockmeyer [Annotators Note: US Navy Ensign Homer Brockmeyer] out over the Japanese...

William Jackson returned to the United States in the latter part of 1946. He lived with his mother and dad and later...

The level of camaraderie began to diminish because they were dealing with different people. If they hadn't gotten...

A regular day for Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] was to keep the transmitters going...

George A. Damiano was born in Riverside, California in 1924. He grew up in a little town called Murrieta, California...

Wallace Spencer and two others stole a whaleboat after the war. A wooden one. They were in Bremerton, Washington where...

Robert Frederick Reed's time in the service made him wonder why we were at war all the time, with World War 2, the...

Thomas Francis Schicker and Leo [Annotator's Note: no last name given; unable to identify] were given mess duty in...

James Oney was in Portland, Oregon after leaving his family farm in the middle of the summer [Annotator's Note: Summer...

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