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When the war with Germany ended, Richard Ryan hoped he would be sent home. He had a one year old son he had not yet...
His duty in the Aleutians lasted for about seven months, after which Thomas Long was sent to Coronado, California for...
When John Caraway boarded the USS Bridge (AF-1), he found it to be not only one of the oldest ships in the Navy's fleet...
Robert G. Frey was born in August 1924 in Bethlehem and ended up in Bath [Annotator's Note: Bethlehem and Bath,...
Edward G. Willette was born in August 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He and his sister, the children of a milk salesman,...
Robert D. Maxwell was born in October 1920 in western Kansas. With the winds blowing the land away, the family headed...
Ivan Van der Pool was born and raised in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He had a normal childhood...
Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] was born in Hamilton, Ohio in July 1917. The Great...
Sidney Maiten was born in September 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. He enjoyed his early life there. He delivered...
Dominic Martello served with the Service Company [Annotator's Note: early Cannon Company, before they established them...
Floyd James Reissig, known as Buddy, was born in Travis County, outside of Austin, Texas in March 1919. His father was...
[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.] They returned to...
Norman Hatch remained on Iwo Jima for the first 18 days of the battle. He was flown off on D plus 18. Hatch flew off...
In July 1945 at Camp Maui [Annotator's Note: Maui Island, Hawaii], James Shelton Scales and his staff [Annotator's Note...
At the end of the battle [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], Louis R. Lepore was brought back to the beach and given a...
Gerald West spent 1944 in an OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, the pre-runner of the CIA] training...
Joseph P. Fulco did not think the fighting was as bad after crossing the Rhine [Annotator's Note: Rhine River]. He...
Frederick Hollis saw the mood of the country after Kasserine Pass as being very negative. With many ships lost at Pearl...
Robert Villars sailed through the Straits of Magellan after leaving Montevideo, Uruguay. He saw the local inhabitants...
Mahlen Arledge fought on Peleliu independently of the Marines who were at a stage of moving off the island and turning...
Roger A. Lewis left Wallis Island [Annotator's Note: Wallis and Futuna] and returned first to American Samoa, and then...
Frank Biondo left New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] for Newport News, Virginia and shipped to Glasgow,...
After Carrol Joy arrived in England, he was sent by train to Ashford Kent. They may have been the closest base to the...
Carrol Joy moved from England to France in July [Annotator’s Note: July 1944]. Afterward, his squadron would be in...
Alvin von Frisch departed Hawaii [Annotator's Note: as a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment,...
Harold Ronson went to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, which later became famous for the atomic bomb testing [Annotator's...
On 11 July 1944, George Colburn and two others went into the Federal building in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston,...
George Alaniz is from New Mexico. He was there when the draft started, and he decided to volunteer for the Army for one...
Jack Werner felt that he was at home when he came to the United States. It seemed that this is where he belonged. It...
The 84th Infantry Division crossed on a big ship, and by way of a rope ladder Frank Patti debarked onto an LST [...
Roy Joseph Moss landed in a DUKW [Annotator's Note: six-wheel-drive amphibious truck; also known as a Duck] or "Duck"...
Wayne Pierce and his regiment were moved to an airbase in the south of England in anticipation of the start of the...
Eugene Corson was happy to be in the Navy. It was rough. He went to boot camp in Rhode Island at an airbase. He could...
Bruce LaRose was born in Pennsylvania. He remembers the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global...
Harold Beal wanted to go into the Navy because he got around his father’s boat quite well. He was in the Navy for four...

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