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Stanley Wolczyk was born in Cleveland, Ohio in December 1917. His father and mother were both Polish immigrants. They...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was on Pavuvu [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu, Russell Islands with the 1st Marine Division]. He never...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard USS LST-781] moved around the South...

James Roy Colquitt was born in September 1926 in Needmore, Alabama. He was one of nine children. His family lived on a...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner was seventeen when he joined the Navy. He did not want to crawl through the bushes and see the...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Army’s 246th Ordnance Battalion] only encountered...

James William Grimes was born in November 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything was okay during the 1920s, but the 1930s...

By the time the second strike was launched, the first attack on Hiryu [Annotator's Note: Japanese aircraft carrier...

During the Battle of Surigao Strait, Mark Brannon said the USS Hutchins (DD-746) had spent almost all of its ammunition...

Emil Kesselman liked being a civilian and a father, and did not have any ideas of going back in the service [Annotator’...

James Salerno cannot remember a lot of things that happened during the war. He does remember that there was a lot of...

When F Company [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 424th Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division] got word...

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