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During the 13 months that Richard McEwen was in combat, he described the Japanese activity where he was as a "backup...

Edward F. Kent was born in November 1917 and grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He attended a one-room school and...

[Annotator's Note: Eugene Tarrant served in the Navy as a captain’s mess attendant aboard the USS San Francisco (CA38...

Bailey was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina on 12 September 1921.During the Great Depression Bailey's clothes...

Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) accompanied a Task Force that included the USS Franklin (CV-13) offshore of...

World War 2 began in 1931 when Japan invaded north China [Annotator's Note: Manchuria region of China]. Austin H....

Melvin Munch was introduced to the Navy in boot camp in San Diego. It was rough. Getting up early each morning to begin...

Edmond Guidry came back [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] to the Philadelphia Navy Yard [Annotator's...

Frank Pomroy had decided to go on a third invasion regardless of whether or not he would be sent home. The Marines drew...

In Harold DeForest's platoon there were two squads of machine guns and three squads of mortars. There were about 12 men...

Each regiment had a book with pictures in it. When the war was over, Thomas J. Smith, Junior felt like a curtain came...

George Vincent Ross was born in September 1926 in Albany, New York. He grew up there. He had one brother, Edward, and...

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