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Claude Bufford Shaw was in the Navy from July 1938 until his discharge in 1972, when he retired at the rank of Captain...

In March or April [Annotator's Note: March or April 1944], Donald Draxler returned to Schofield Barracks [Annotator's...

Clayton Hall and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] got...

George Vincent Ross was born in September 1926 in Albany, New York. He grew up there. He had one brother, Edward, and...

John Wesley Tatum was born in 1919 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He worked in North Carolina at a pole mill in Leland...

When Astley Blackwell got in the water he realized that his life belt had a hole in it. He grabbed a keg which had come...

The bunkers were made of coconut logs placed over a deep hole with mud placed on the top of the logs [Annotators Note...

Frank George Memory had no problems returning from the war. He was married in 1946 and had five children with his wife...

Meda Royce Hall [Annotator's Note: a US Navy bombsight instructor] had one pilot that gave him some trouble because he...

Once he was back in the United States, Richard Jaccarino traveled by train, dropping off soldiers and train cars all...

William “Bill” Knapp learned how tenuous life is and how men can hate each other during the Second World War. Hating is...

Thomas Crosby's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the end. His experience in the war gave him a great...

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