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William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

Among his fellow officers, Earl Conklin thought there were a couple who were marvelous fellows and he has kept in touch...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

Robert Riddle was at Okinawa when the atomic bombs were dropped. His crew, on hearing of the surrender, was a little...

After Richard Jaccarino was released from the hospital, he was sent to a replacement depot on Saipan, and within a...

William Pierce recounts an instance of Japanese night time infiltration [Annotator's Note: during combat operations on...

From China, the USS Balduck (ADP-132) took Donald Dean and the rest of the crew back to Okinawa, then to Hawaii,...

The ship Melvin Abadie was assigned to [Annotator's Note: USS Appalachian (AGC-1)] was one of 18 ships that took troops...

Prior to shipping out, Sammy Ray's professor and advisor from Louisiana State University, Doctor Lowry, put him in...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

Donald Long feels the combat that his father saw in France during World War 1 and that experienced by his brother on...

Jimmie Dyer entered the service in March 1944 after making a deal with his mother to finish high school. He was sworn...

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