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When the war ended, Wallace McKay was sent to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], where he worked in a beach...

[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole served in the US Marine Corps as a communications specialist in the 52nd Defense...

Charles Graves Chauncey was born in April 1923 in Chanute, Kansas. He went through the school system, went to Kansas...

Jack Werner felt that he was at home when he came to the United States. It seemed that this is where he belonged. It...

When Oran Harris' ship pulled into port in New Guinea, he walked ashore just to say he had been there. But he saw no...

James Warren David explains how the LCVPs [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP] loaded up troops...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. witnessed the end of the fighting on Wake Island. It was chaotic. He [Annotator’s Note: then US...

Iwo Jima as the worst place Dave Severance fought. They could not see the enemy. The terrain was rough and open. Living...

"PB" Snyder was born in Vernon, Texas in June 1927. His father was an independent drilling contractor and moved the...

Jack Thornhill was born in Alexandria [Annotator's Note: Alexandria, Louisiana] in 1926. In 1932 the family moved to...

Harlan Twible may have had nightmares after the war but it was nothing he could not handle. He left active duty the...

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