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John Mikus, Jr. was born in Meadow Lands, Pennsylvania in October 1921. His father was a coal miner. Mikus had seven...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: after joining Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division on...

Arthur Jackson had been influenced by Marine pilots and wanted to fly. At the recruiting office he took the aviation...

When assigned to the USS Helena (CL-50) in March 1942, Thomas Tizzard was given leave in Sydney, Australia for R...

Robert Philips landed across Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] the first week in August [Annotator's...

Kenneth E. Stevens [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division] did not...

William Ward Crawford was born in 1914 in Akron, Ohio. He was aware of the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

[Annotator's Note: Harold DeForest served in the Army as a gunner on a 60mm mortar in Company A, 1st Battalion, 129th...

After his discharge, John Carruth went to Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] and worked for his uncle, who...

In the Spring of 1942, Benjamin Clark Amsden started pursuing going into Naval Aviation. He found out the eye exam was...

Charles “Chuck” Franzke was born in November 1925 in Wellington, Kansas and grew up in Topeka, Kansas. His father had...

Robert Barnett came back to the United States through the Panama Canal on Christmas Day, 1945 to join the Atlantic...

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