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William J. Twigger was training on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in September 1944]...

David Heath was told the Marines could not use a man with a hole in his stomach, so he was shipped back to Camp...

Harold Ward has never seen any history on what happened to the Helena [Annotators Note: USS Helena (CL-50)], the...

Deen was born in McCray, Georgia. His father was the president of South Methodist College. He was one of three kids....

David Lamar Mealor was born in March 1923 in Newnan [Annotator’s Note: Newnan, Georgia]. He attended Newnan High School...

Nevin Sledge admired the SeaBees [Annotator's Note: Members of US naval construction battalions]. They did everything...

Kenneth Raymond Goodwin graduated high school in 1944. His birthday was 31 August [Annotator's Note: 31 August 1944]....

Giles Bacon remained at Merritt Island for five months before transferring to Quantico, Virginia. He then transferred...

James Billingsley was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in November 1923. He remembers the Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

William Currier [Annotator's Note: while serving as a radarman aboard the USS Hall (DD-583)] headed to Iwo Jima [...

Sam L. Miller was discharged from the Navy as a Yeoman 3rd Class [Annotator's Note: at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard...

Theodore Marolda has had to pay out of his own pocket for medical expenses because veteran benefits would take too long...

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