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Ray, Sammy Ornithology Mission
Prior to shipping out, Sammy Ray's professor and advisor from Louisiana State University, Doctor Lowry, put him in touch with Alexander Wetmor
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Ray, Sammy Pavuvu Island
In early January 1944, Sammy Ray boarded a ship to New Caledonia.
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Ray, Sammy Prewar Life
Sammy Ray was born in the small town of Mulberry, Kansas.
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Ray, Sammy Ray’s Deployment Experience
Sammy Ray was sent by train to a tent camp in the mountains outside of the Marine Corps Air Base in Miramar, California.
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Ray, Sammy Ray’s Experience with a Court Martial
While in training at Camp Lejeune, Sammy Ray would visit his wife [Annotator's Note: Charlotte (Parr) Ray] in Norfolk on his weekend passes.
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Ray, Sammy Recalling Pearl Harbor and Pre-Enlistment Life
Sammy Ray was born in February 1919.
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Ray, Sammy Reflections
[Annotator's Notes: Ray takes a long pause.] Sammy Ray felt that he had to fight in World War 2.
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Ray, Sammy Reflections on Peleliu and Okinawa
Sammy Ray recalled storming the beach of Peleliu in the afternoon [Annotator's Note: of 15 September 1944] and that everything was chaotic.
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Ray, Sammy Return to the United States and Postwar Life
In November 1945, Sammy Ray was discharged from the Navy in New Orleans, Louisiana. It took him about a year to adjust to civilian life again.
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Reale, Albert Duty in the Pacific
Albert Reale remembers that the size of the Pacific impressed him, and there were many days when he saw nothing but water.
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Reale, Albert Early Life and Enlistment
Albert Reale was born in March 1925 in New Britain, Connecticut.
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Reale, Albert Observations
Albert Reale thought the Japanese were miserable people, and seeing the surviving soldiers from Okinawa reinforced his opinion.