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There was a radioman on Harper Gruber's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS YMS-339] who would pick up the world news and...

Hugh Ettinger was born in May 1926 in Watertown, New York. His father worked as a civil engineer, and they lived on...

[Annotator's Note: James Goodrich served in the US Marine Corps as a machine gun section leader in the 27th Marine...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

When William Lansford was in Iceland, he and the other Marines spent their time building their own Quonset huts and...

Forrest Villarrubia recollects climbing up a tree and being shot at as his most memorable occurrence of World War 2. [...

Glenn Frazier was selected for the Tayabas road detail in the Tayabas area of southeast Luzon [Annotator's Note: in the...

In 1940, Alfred A. Lingo was activated into the Army for one year at Hamilton Field [Annotator's Note: now Hamilton Air...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. left a situation where he was tasked with destroying everything and went home to a place...

George Colburn does not believe in bravery. The last thing on your mind is getting a medal. Medals counted for points...

The first glimpse Aaron Baumgarten had of Alaska was from the air, and he was impressed with its pristine vastness....

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. was assigned to the USS Tippecanoe (AO-21) tanker. Most individuals were wary of serving on...

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