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Burl Loving was ordered to report to the 317 [Annotator’s Note: USS YMS-317 minesweeper] which was a 130-foot-long,...

Burton Johnson had been in the service for three years when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: on...

John Bradley served in the Army infantry and attended jump and Ranger school. He volunteered to join the 101st Airborne...

William Sturman and a buddy liked the Navy and just picked it to join. He wanted to see the ocean. He was old enough to...

Cecil Ezell McLain stopped in Singapore before heading home and witnessed five people die and several people blinded by...

Ittsei Nakagawa's father's side of the family came over to the United States [Annotator's Note: from Japan] around 1904...

Socrates Dendrinelis was born in St. Louis, Missouri in March 1926. He grew up there with three brothers and one sister...

John Singlaub had expected that his team would lead an attack on a German garrison, but a competing Communist...

Jack D. Owen was inducted into the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in 1944] in Tyler, Texas, and then boarded a train to San...

Norman Hatch does not think of his experiences on Tarawa or Iwo Jima continuously. Rather, his experiences flood back...

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

Clyde Nordstrom was discharged in Seattle [Annotator's Note: Seattle, Washington] and went to Minneapolis [Annotator's...

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