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After graduating from Navy training, Sam S. McKeel was assigned to LST-579 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] and...

Williams Riggs was born in Somerset, Texas in January 1925. He grew up working on a farm and vowed he would never go...

Miller Lampell, who had written a radio program, was assigned by the New York Herald Tribune to write Ben Kuroki's...

Francis John "Dick" Varone enlisted in the Marine Corps by himself. He waited until he received orders to report to...

Irwin Schneider was changed by the war completely. He had led a sheltered life prior to his service. He learned to be a...

Claude Shannahan didn't meet any Paramarines at Bloody Ridge. They got beat up landing on Guadalcanal. The rations on...

John Elliott and his crew knew nothing about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima...

Thomas Lusco Sr. was born in Rita, Louisiana. He was raised with 14 kids in his family. He went to a Catholic school...

When the ship arrived, F. Lincoln Grahlfs went out to sea for ten months. The ship was a patrol craft. After the...

They never really knew. They could have used any excuse to cut Myers' head off, but he still took alot of chances.Myers...

Louis R. Lepore took a cruise to Washington D.C. [Annotator's Note: Washington, District of Columbia]. He saw the World...

Don Daniels was born in Columbia, South Carolina in December 1925. He lived there until he was 14. He then moved to...

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