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The only help Fiske Hanley remembers getting from the Red Cross while he was overseas was the loan of two books when he...

Sam L. Miller reported aboard the USS Edgecombe (APA-164) in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California...

In September 1947, James T. Lindsey enlisted in the US Army Air Forces to become a pilot. Because of his background in...

Fermer Kellogg Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Lenawee (APA-195)] took troops and supplies to shore during the...

When the Marines were about half way down Okinawa the Japanese got around behind them. Robert Akins and some of his...

Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

James Stewart Rosenbaum heard about the surrender of Germany while he was fighting in Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Dale Peterson felt the Okinawa campaign to be the most difficult. He was at battle stations 113 times. Fear of death...

When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

Dee Wayne White’s most memorable experience of his service was in the Merchant Marine when his ship took on several...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was with his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Division] on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...

William Pierce went to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina following his tour in Hingham, Massachusetts. Because he had been...

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