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Scherer, Monroe Chess Playing Combat Engineer
Monroe Scherer was the chess champion of not only basic, but later training. He was at Fort Belvoir, Virginia which was...
Feightner, Edward "Whitey" Segment 4
Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare] really invented the Thatch Weave and Thatch's name was...
Guidry, Edmond Sinking a Japanese Submarine
Edmond Guidry took a troop ship out of San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] with no escort and...
Werner, Morton Joining the Navy
Morton William Werner was born in February 1927 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a middle-class home. His...
O'Leary, Frank Deployed to Guadalcanal
In June 1942, after mortar training at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville,...
Leaming, Jack Yokohama POW Camp
Jack Leaming and his pilot were taken to Yokohama. [Annotator's Note: Leaming was the rear gunner in the Douglas SDB...
Donovan, Robert War's End
Robert L. Donovan remembers that the Filipinos would take the leftovers from the soldiers after they would liberate an...
Phillips, Robert Home and the Korean War
Robert Philips came home, took advantage of the G.I. Bill and went to the University of Oregon [Annotator's Note: in...
Carmody, Martin "Red" The Sinking of the USS Hornet (CV-8)
Martin Carmody and Les Ward finally joined back up with each other. They had both consumed a lot of fuel during their...
Snyder, Kenneth Reflections
Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. says the reason for a museum [Annotator's Note: such as The National WWII Museum in New Orleans...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 1
Tyler was working in the information center receiving radar reports on the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack [...
Ellis, Frederick Shake-down Cruise and Deployment
Frederick Ellis had a roommate at Tulane [Annotator's Note: Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana] named Eddie...

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