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[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in Company K...

Ellis Whaley was discharged as a Staff Sergeant. He did not sign up for Reserve time and it was not offered. He wanted...

After graduating from Officer Cadet School [Annotator's Note: at Fort Benning, Georgia], Clark Wackerman was sent to...

James Morehead was born in August 1916 in Peoli, Oklahoma, the youngest of four children in a family that worked a farm...

Monroe Scherer was shipped from Saipan to Guam [Annotator's Note: both in the Mariana Islands] for a few days before...

Wallace Edward Spencer, originally Wallace Smigirow, was born in Woodside, New York in October 1925. He has one older...

While on his cruiser [Annotator's Note: USS San Juan (CL-54)], Dale Peterson's favorite form of entertainment was...

Richard Lafleur could smell Japan as they got close. Before long they could see the coastline. He envisioned what the...

Richard Keller's outfit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] went back to...

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

After liberation [Annotator's Note: 3 February 1945 at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment Camp,...

The Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-10)] was gone when Feightner arrived at Pearl Harbor so he went down...

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