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Orville Carroll is glad he was not in combat. Two of his brothers were in the armed services as well, in Germany, but...

Joe G. Casillas had his baptism of fire right on the escarpment [Annotator's Note: after landing on Okinawa, Japan, 10...

Gene Alair was assigned to a Transport Division Staff, CTD8, as a flag secretary and navigator aboard the USS Astoria (...

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in...

Marvin Hill had a famous bandleader aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748)]. Eddie Duchin...

When the Japanese assaulted Wake Island the second time, Walter Bowsher was ordered to destroy his antiaircraft battery...

Wilbur Rogers said that everything he did [Annotator's Note: during his time in the US Navy] was before he was 21 years...

During his time on PT-171, Olaf Rose took instruction from veteran engineers, and gradually got comfortable with his...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom’s mother worked by having boarders. His mother was able to buy two houses with the money she...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] was eating...

Donald Herbert Shown and his ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] completed delivery of atomic bomb [...

Edward Bale went to Okinawa at the beginning of the assault as part of a deception force that did not land. The 2nd...

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