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Charles “Chuck” Franzke’s orders were changed after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August...

Louis Hutchinson was discharged from the Navy on 16 April 1946, in Bainbridge [Annotator's Note: Bainbridge, Maryland...

Lowell Rodrigue was born in June 1924 in Edgard, Louisiana, but was raised in St. Rose, Louisiana. His father worked...

Buck Donaldson joined the Navy. He went to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] for boot camp by train....

Raymond Bailey was not a Catholic but he went to Father O'Callahan's services [Annotator's Note: Captain Joseph T. O'...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz fired the machine guns [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Patterson (DD-392)] for the first time...

Selwyn Gilmore fit back in when he got home. He did not go to work right away. He regrets not going to college when it...

Jack Leaming was launched off the deck of the Enterprise on the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was assigned to Wake Island as a member of the Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battalion. He had...

William Pierce looked at the invasion of Japan as just another battle. His Marine regiment [Annotator's Note: Pierce...

While on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1 April to 22 June 1945; Okinawa, Japan], Kenneth...

[Annotator's Note: Eugene Tarrant served in the Navy as a captain’s mess attendant aboard the USS San Francisco (CA38...

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