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Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

Kenneth E. Stevens and his outfit were the first Marines to get into the Poway Valley [Annotator's Note: in Poway,...

Armando Galella was born in January 1921 in New York, New York. When he was around four years old, he moved with his...

George A. Damiano recalls that the local population [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] was happy to have the...

James Bollich was only able to get water from one place [Annotator's Note: in the Camp O’Donnell prisoner of war camp...

One of the Japanese jumped out of the tank [Annotator's Note: on Tinian] and Keith Renstrom shot him. He was awarded...

Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...

The worst camp Pearson Riddle stayed at was every camp following his experience in China. The worst camp he stayed in...

Joseph LaNier had a close call on Okinawa while driving a truck. The LST [Annotator’s Note: LST—landing ship, tank] was...

Astley Blackwell’s ship [Annotator's Note: the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] was sunk on 25 October [Annotator's Note: 25...

After being separated from the Army at Fort Meade, Maryland on 6 March 1946, Lester Caplan used the G.I. Bill to...

Lloyd Augustus Chamblin, Jr., was sent to El Toro [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California] to...

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