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James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

Some of the men Ellis Whaley trained with were weeping about being away from home. The climate in Washington was cold....

Lynward Joseph "Buddy" or "Bud" Adams was a Navy Armed Guard and guarded US Merchant Marine ships during World War 2....

Calvin Moore used his G.I. Bill to buy a house and go to school. The G.I. Bill was important to post World War 2...

[Annotator's Note: While he was living in Detroit, Michigan and working as a streetcar driver,] Andrew Petrus received...

James Bowie joined the Marine Corps. He only knew what he saw in the newsreels. He had an uncle who served in the Navy...

Mitchell Zimmer served aboard two sister-ship submarines, the Snapper [Annotator's Note: USS Snapper (SS-185) and the...

In late summer of 1951 John Reeder returned to the United States. He was immediately sent to Quantico, Virginia for a...

As first scout, John Wicklund carried a Thompson submachine gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun...

John Singlaub was in Denver, Colorado commanding a Readiness Region when he was asked to go overseas once again. [...

Benjamin Clark Amsden [Annotator's Note: an aviation cadet in the United States Navy] went from Pensacola [Annotator's...

Mason Brownell Fitch flew five missions before Curtis LeMay [Annotator's Note: Curtis Emerson LeMay; US Army Air Forces...

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