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Rob Roy Ratliff was discharged from the Marine Corps and then used the G.I. Bill to attend American University in...

James Shelton Scales was born in April 1917 in Sandy Ridge, North Carolina. It was a farming community in Stokes County...

Harold “Hal” Leith was born in June 1919 in Butte, Montana. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

Sterling Cale was on night duty at the shipyard dispensary in the Navy yard before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He had...

For much of the time, Theodore Pavlovich had nothing to eat but C-rations [Annotator's Note: pre-cooked combat ration]...

Richard O'Hara and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion] saw very little action. When...

Richard Higgins often wonders why he walked away when so many of his friends did not. Higgins knew that Captain Haldane...

James Gaffney got into trouble in Cartagena [Annotator’s Note: Cartagena, Colombia]. Some of the crew was driven in a...

After Parris Island, William Pierce went to Hingham, Massachusetts which housed a huge naval ammunition manufacturing...

Raymond Hayes and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Tortuga (LSD-26)] went to different places in China, delivering food...

There was a lot more going on in Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953] for Philip Curran,...

Lowell Rodrigue was assigned to a special unit and sent to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau Islands], but the...

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