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Trinidad Ledesma was drafted into the Army. He went to take his physical and two men in front of him got 4F [Annotator'...

William Hall reached North Island and was assigned to one of two Marine Corps fighter units being organized. Fighter...

After processing in California, Arthur Lee was sent to Maui, Hawaii, where he was running a warehouse and cold storage...

Harry Walker Wellford attended the Navy V-12 program [Annotator’s Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled the constant mortar [Annotator's Note: M1 81mm mortar] firing during World War 2...

Phineas Stevens feels it is absolutely important that future generations continue to study World War 2. It was horrible...

After Willie D. Knippers spent a year in Hawaii, he was shipped to Guam [Annotator’s Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] where...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: An American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] was...

Harold Ronson came home in the late summer of 1946. There was no big band or homecoming. His father had remarried the...

Nevin Sledge was assigned to be an instructor after graduation. [Annotator’s Note: Sledge graduated in Corpus Christi,...

Clem Thrift was born in January 1927 in Thomasville, North Carolina. He never knew his father, who died in an accident...

William J. Twigger [Annotator's Note: and Company F, 2nd Battalion, 29th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] came...

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