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Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. was drafted into the armed forces and chose to serve in the Navy. He boarded a train and was...

Mahlen Arledge received his draft notice in July 1943 and went into service the next month. He elected to go into the...

Pearson Riddle was born in Pensacola, North Carolina and grew up in the country. His father had a farm of about 120...

Austin H. Kiplinger experienced friendly fire in the Fall of 1944 [Annotator's Note: as a pilot with Composite...

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

John Cassidy was born in June 1915 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a 17 year old girl who couldn't support a...

The United States was going into Biak [Annotator's Note: Biak, Western New Guinea] and the Japanese thwarted the...

Kenneth Raymond Goodwin was the historian for the unit [Annotator's Note: Goodwin was a member of the I...

In January [Annotator's Note: January 1944], James Roland Westbrook [Annotator's Note: in Company F, 2nd Battalion,...

Yellin recalls strafing runs on Chici-jima which was about a hundred or so miles from Iwo Jima. Yellin strafed the...

Vaughn Whitworth did not decide to fight in World War 2, he was inducted. He felt it was his duty to go along. He did...

From Hawaii, Walter Jacobs and his division went to Guam. One of their regiments, the 307th [Annotator's Note: 307th...

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