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Without any time to become acquainted with anyone, Aloysius "Al" Arend was put on a ship bound for combat in the...

Edward Riedl shipped out around April 1944. They stopped on Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall...

At the time war broke out, Charles A. Waller was working as an usher at a nearby movie theater and followed the course...

Earnest did get his eight landings in. The next time he was going to be making a landing he was on the Saratoga [...

The B-29s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] had "lots of troubles," but Fiske Hanley said...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands] was taken on 1 November [Annotator's Note: 1...

[Annotator's Note: James Allen served in the Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class in the submarine service and was aboard the...

Frank Savage was sent to Fort McClellan, Alabama. His aunt made a uniform for him so he could arrive with something...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard the USS LST-781] was a witness to the...

During the spring of 1943 in Jacksonville [Annotator’s Note: Jacksonville, Florida], James W. Metcalf and the other...

Al Currier was able to learn to operate a tank [Annotator's Note: M3 Stuart light tank] when the Army sent 20 prewar...

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