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After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

Harold Hauberg [Annotator's Note: with Company D, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division] landed...

William H Greason believed that African-American servicemen helped the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, Greason was a...

Richard Bennett mentioned that one incident stands out as a proud moment. Out of the 15 PT boats in the squadron [...

[Annotator's Note: Walter Jacobs served in the Army as a squad leader in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 306th Infantry...

Robert Hammond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1926. His father was a postal worker and his mother a...

Cass Phillips got into a ferry squadron after he returned home. He flew all kinds of planes he never could before. He...

Thomas Francis Schicker went to Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] and did maneuvers offshore...

Landing on 1 April [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], Joe Clapper's platoon went into Okinawa right below Kadena, with...

William Smith went back to college and it was the hardest thing he ever did. When arriving home after being overseas,...

[Annotator's Note: Horace Trahan serevd in the Navy aboard the USS Briscoe (APA 65) in the Pacific.] They stopped in...

Peter "Pete" Behr was born in Fresno, California in 1925. His father lost his job during the Great Depression [...

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