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Edward Allesandro said that most people are surprised to hear that the Coast Guard was fighting in World War 2. The USS...

William Stewart was sent to Camp Beale in California [Annotator’s Note: near Marysville, California]. He got his first...

Benjamin Carson assessed the battle for Bougainville to be unique in the sense that the intent was not to capture the...

Although in retrospect Holly Rees thinks he may have been naive, he felt certain that his battlefield career was over...

[Annotators Note: Robert Ray Akins served in a special weapons company in the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

Claude Clifton Cuniff, Junior's experience in the Navy was exciting. He always enjoyed coming through and seeing the...

Clem Thrift thought the destroyer escort he served on [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] was a great ship. It...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Griffith was a member of Company A, 6th Ranger Battalion and took part in the Raid at...

Next, Leo V. Strausbaugh's unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 6th Ranger Battalion] joined the rest of his battalion at...

Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After a couple of...

Yukio Kawamoto was born in Berkeley, California in November 1919. He was drafted into the Army from the University of...

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