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After the war ended, Dr. Robert Beynon and the USS Bowfin (SS-287) went to Long Island [Annotator's Note: Long Island,...

They built the dugout for 3 people. They would run around and get food, and they would work all night. After...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled that one day [Annotator's Note: one day while he was taking part in the Battle of...

Lloyd Dendy returned to his family in Anse La Butte [Annotator's Note: Anse La Butte, Louisiana]. There is a salt mine...

Thomas Joseph Lemme teamed up with a fellow named John Prentice Brown [Annotator's Note: Lemme was drafted into the...

Garland Miller Gallaspy was born in Ottawa, Oklahoma in November 1922. His family moved all over the Southeast while he...

Richard Bennett thinks World War 2 doesn't mean much to today's Americans, except for a small amount of appreciation....

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

William J. Twigger joined the remnant of the division [Annotator's Note: he had originally been a member of Company F,...

Peter Hebert was born in 1927 in Algiers, Louisiana. He attended Catholic school. His father worked and his mother...

In early January [Annotator's Note: January 1944] Allen Tillery went to Linda Vista where he boarded the USS Manila Bay...

Peter Newberg did not have much choice in abandoning ship [Annotator's Note: after the USS Yorktown (CV-5) was mortally...

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