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Nevin Sledge remembers that everything was secretive. One of the generals was killed by a sniper. A Marine general took...

Ray Anthony joined the Navy rather than the Army. He went to the Great Lakes and Chicago. Eddie Peabody was a...

After processing in California, Arthur Lee was sent to Maui, Hawaii, where he was running a warehouse and cold storage...

Emmett Guderian served in the occupation of Japan. He saw the remains of bombed towns. He worked with Japanese on...

William Stewart was sent to Camp Beale in California [Annotator’s Note: near Marysville, California]. He got his first...

Charles Martin was at the hospital when the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945]. He found out that...

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

After 16 months on Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa, Japan], Howard Cain was ordered to pack his things and prepare...

William Currier [Annotator's Note: while serving as a radarman aboard the USS Hall (DD-583)] headed back to the United...

James Stewart Rosenbaum's most memorable experience was when his friend went on a mission and was killed by a sniper....

Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

Dale Bates' most memorable experience of World War 2 was a mission off the tip of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa,...

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