Life in the Field/aboard ship

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[Annotator's Note: Robert Philips served in the Army as a combat medic in the 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry...

On his second day on Iwo Jima, Japan, William Wayne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th...

Robert L. Donovan did not rely on his faith as much as people would think. He did not find himself praying very often....

Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines. He stayed on the beach with equipment. On the second day,...

Charles Martin remembers that the new tanks had 75 mm howitzers on them. Martin and a friend learned how to swim...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BAR man, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion,...

Clayton Hall was pinned down [Annotator's Note: with Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

Martin J. Anschau and his outfit crossed an open field [Annotator’s Note: in Belgium with the 290th Infantry Regiment,...

Kenneth Raymond Goodwin was a Private First Class [Annotator's Note: while serving with the I...

Bernard Knese moved from England to France in early 1945. Knese served in the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War...

Sidney Maiten and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Catoctin (AGC-5)] sailed to Sevastopol for the Yalta Conference....

William Roy had served in Battleship Division 5 in the Atlantic on the battleship Arkansas [Annotator's Note: USS...

[Annotator's Note: William Roy was aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and worked as the ship's photographer as she returned...

Hartsel Ross joined the Maritime Services [Annotator's Note: the US Merchant Marine] in January 1944. He boarded a...

F.M. Richard Simons' worst memories are of the cold and the fear of falling asleep in his foxhole. They had wire with...

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