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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...

Walter Groth was born in Louisiana in July 1924. He was born and raised on a beef cattle farm in Elton, Louisiana. His...

Sumner Whitten would rent his car out for five dollars per night. Whitten took his graduation leave in New England then...

Jack Werner was the highest ranking non-commissioned officer of his company [Annotator's Note: H...

After the war ended, Harry Walker Wellford and his crewmates enjoyed watching movies on the fantail [Annotator's Note:...

In the whole time James Buckley was on duty in the Pacific [Annotator's Note: as Deck Officer on the USS LST-1013], he...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was still on the ship when the Marines on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]...

John Caudle returned to work at the company he worked at before the war. It was a department store. He then went into a...

Earl Angel and the 11th Airborne [Annotator's Note: 11th Airborne Division] traveled overseas on the USS Edellyn [...

Many years after the war, James Goodrich went back to Iwo Jima. The visit helped him a lot with his own feelings about...

Howard Cain was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in November 1926. At age seven, the family moved to Chicago [Annotator’s...

On 7 January 1942, Thomas Crosby and his family were sent to Santo Tomas University, Metro Manila, Philippines, which...

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