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Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

Cleatus Lebow was kept in the hospital ward for four weeks, then flew from Samar Island [Annotator's Note: Samar Island...

Billy Grieves watches movies like Run Silent, Run Deep religiously. He feels that they are more Hollywood than reality...

Robert G. Aldous and his crew were on Ie-Shima [Annotator's Note: Ie-Shima, Japan] at the time [Annotator's Note: of...

Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

Willie Roy Hebert had no trouble adjusting to civilian life. He was in the ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer...

John Singlaub trained with the OSS following his completion of paratrooper and demolition training at Fort Benning,...

Martin Sherbecoe remembered that the curfew on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was very strict....

Sam S. McKeel returned to the United States and was discharged from the Navy in March 1946. He enrolled in at Atlantic...

Frank M. Heuer Sr. was assigned to the crew of a crash boat and deployed to Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll,...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

James J. Bollich was born on a farm south of Eunice [Annotator's Note: Eunice, Louisiana]. His family primarily grew...

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