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Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

Admiral Mitscher [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Marc Andrew "Pete" Mitscher] was aboard Warren Nolan's ship [...

The Marines knew they would be getting into a yellow jacket's nest if they had to invade Japan. When the war ended,...

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

Romus Valtin Burgin worked with a contact officer from the VA [Annotator's Note: Veterans Administration] named Frank...

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

Herman Prager was awarded the enlisted man's silver dolphin pin for submarine qualification, the Submarine Combat pin...

Bailey feels that war should be over with. His division fought the Chinese in North Korea. Young men are fighting today...

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

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

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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