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Hunger and thirst tormented Cleatus Lebow and his fellow shipmates from the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) who were stranded...

Clifford Albert Hahn reached Dutch Harbor [Annotator's Note: Dutch Harbor, Alaska] on 11 May [Annotator's Note: 11 May...

Frank Campisano was told he would be in the first wave for the invasion of Japan. He departed for his old camp on...

Hershel Williams was born and raised in a country atmosphere in West Virginia. His father was in the dairy business....

Leo V. Strausbaugh was offered a chance to go home for 30 days, but he would have to forfeit all his points [Annotator'...

As the United States Armed Forces got closer to Japan, Claude Bufford Shaw felt more vindicated for the loss of his...

Richard Keller and the rest of the 37th Division took part in the Louisiana Maneuvers. They were bused into the area...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

Alvin Sniff was born in March 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the war started, he quit school and went to work in...

On the way out of the United States, Joseph F. McGee Junior reunited with his old high school football coach in Hawaii...

John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, known as the Alamo Scouts] did...

Leisey's father was a railroad worker and his mother was a garment worker. They survived the Great Depression by...

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