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Allen Ray Sibley almost stayed in the Army. He liked being a soldier. He is glad he did not stay in because he would...

Edmund Durocher landed on Guadalcanal weighing 156 pounds and left weighing 126. He had no socks because they had...

Robert Hammond didn't like the military's practice of segregation. At the time he first encountered prejudice in South...

Remi Kidder was sent to San Diego, California for his basic training. He was used to hard work and discipline so that...

After his discharge, Ray Emory went to college to study architecture and graduated from the University of Washington....

When John McGlohon's crew arrived in Pushkar, India, they were told they would have to surrender their new plane to the...

Pedro Parra feels that most veterans of the war did not talk too much about it. The young people have no idea what it...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was raised in Richmond, Virginia. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a...

Walter John Guyote cheated on the eye exam to get into the Navy. He was sent to San Diego, California for boot camp. He...

After Ira Schilling and Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment hit the beach at Tarawa, Company L split up and...

Jimmie F. Dyer was born and raised on a farm in Castro County, Texas in April 1926. His dad was a farmer and there were...

After leaving the scene of the USS Laffey (DD-724) and before reaching his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Shamrock Bay...

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