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When the war ended, Wallace McKay was sent to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], where he worked in a beach...

Jones' group would fly patrols up and down he coast out of McCord. He liked that flying because there were no controls...

"PB" Snyder was born in Vernon, Texas in June 1927. His father was an independent drilling contractor and moved the...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. first encountered Japanese assault troops soon after Devereux [Annotator's Note: then US Marine...

Paul Sartori Jr.’s father was an immigrant from northern Italy. They were carriage makers and blacksmiths. His father...

Burton Johnson had multiple locations where Japanese prisoners were held in New Guinea. There was still hard fighting...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

Richard Witaker spent six months in China with the 6th Marine Division after the war. He returned to the United States...

After he ate breakfast Rogers went up to the radio system that was set up on the apron at the airport. They moved the...

Walter Jacobs thought the BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle] was a good weapon but required a lot of...

Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...

Fermer Kellogg had problems with his arm after the war, but he still managed to take on various types of work like...

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