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Lawrence Brooks followed the war while he was in service. One of the islands he was on had Japanese pillboxes. The...

Clem Thrift said the United States was suffering under the threat of German submarine attacks, so the destroyer escorts...

After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945; Iwo Jima, Japan], Adolfo V. Celaya...

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

Barbara Butler got her orders and flew to Seoul, Korea. She was sent to a replacement depot at an Army installation....

The war came along. Francis Bucher remembers first hearing that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

After graduating high school, Harlan Twible got a job then started college with the money he earned. During his...

Thomas Crosby was born in September 1933 in Cagayan de Misamis, Mindanao, Philippines. His mother, grandmother and aunt...

In August 1945, after completing an advanced infantry training course at Fort Rucker, Alabama, Marvin Martin was sent...

Byron Herbert Meader received very little military training when he was assigned to the 3462nd Ordnance Medium...

Vernon Henry Moret boarded a plane on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] to rejoin his unit [...

Harry Robert Momi was born in October 1924 in Stockton, California with one older sister. He was raised by his parents...

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