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[Annotator's Note: Pedro Parra was assigned to the 854th Engineer Aviation Battalion in February 1943.] They did not...

Robert Frederick Reed found that flying near Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] was traumatic, knowing that...

Philip Schweitzer's first time away from home was his trip to basic training. Schweitzer thinks that at the time, the...

Kenneth A. Lafleur was born in May 1923 in Ville Platte [Annotator's Note: Ville Platte Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

Ben Ray Bost had a new captain come aboard [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316] after Captain Fritsch [Annotator's Note...

Carey Suratt left the Navy when his enlistment time was completed. In 1950, someone recommended Suratt join a new Army...

When the flag went up on Mt. Suribachi [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, February 1945], Hershel Williams was too busy in...

James Bollich was on one of the first ships to take prisoners from the Philippines. The Japanese put 2,000 men into a...

Martin Banyas sailed all the islands [Annotator's Note: a Marine gunner on USS Santa Fe (CL-60)] including Saipan [...

Howard Cain sailed across the Pacific on a troop ship to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was assigned to...

Alvin von Frisch was sent to Camp Croft [Annotator's Note: in Spartanburg, South Carolina; now Croft State Park] for...

James William Grimes kept in touch with his family by writing letters occasionally. He had a girlfriend in high school...

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