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Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

Donald Dean went to Farragut, Idaho for boot camp then to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for fire control school where he...

After David Lamar Mealor contracted a bad case of jungle rot in New Guinea, he was shipped back to the United States on...

Life at the Academy [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland] was very good, and Claude...

When he was on shore leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in occupied Japan,...

After the war, Clayton Hall's mother used to tell him that she would hear him in the night hollering that they needed...

After serving aboard the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke DD-4156)], Claude Bufford Shaw was assigned to the Bullard...

Elmer Spraker thought he might transition into rebuilding maritime engines in the civilian sector, and in this section...

Clayton Hall's most memorable experience of the war is fighting and wondering what he would be doing if he ever got out...

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

Robert Powers went ashore unopposed at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was in a foxhole with his buddy...

Louis R. Lepore joined the Marine Corps in September 1942 and retired in May 1971 after 29 years of service. Lepore...

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