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James Shelton Scales did not think about his family much, except that he missed his wife and daughter. His wife wrote...

Some weeks after Monroe Scherer arrived in Korea, some of the older members went back to the United States. Scherer...

Gerry Jones recalls when they [Annotator's Note: the 1st Marine Division] went to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu,...

Louis Conter saw the Second World War as an unconditional victory. Today's world is different. We should try to knock...

Frederick Ellis had seven 40mm guns [Annotator's Note; Bofors 40mm automatic cannon] and 12 20mm guns [Annotator's Note...

Aloysius "Al" Arend was born in Chicago, Illinois in November 1925. He grew up and spent much of his life in nearby...

Daniel J. Lawler was born in 1925 in Glens Falls [Annotator's Note: Glens Falls, New York]. His father worked in the...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the invasions of the Marshall and Gilbert...

On 7 December 1941, Alfred Raymond was sleeping and someone came and woke him up to tell him that the Japanese had...

News that the war had ended seemed to daze Randall Edwards and his fellow prisoners of war initially. Once they got...

Lloyd Dendy and his brother went to Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego, California by train. When they arrived in San...

Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

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