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Charles Bishop stayed with the Piranha [Annotators Note: USS Piranha (SS-389)] to put her out of commission since he...

John Vessey and his unit headed to Fort Dix to prepare to go overseas. They were supposed to go on a French ship but it...

The Evans [Annotator's Note: US Navy destroyer USS Evans (DD-552)] was a Fletcher Class destroyer of 2100 tons.Life on...

William Barnes was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After high school he attended Bowling Green Business...

One of the Japanese jumped out of the tank [Annotator's Note: on Tinian] and Keith Renstrom shot him. He was awarded...

Josephine Pescatore would do it all again tomorrow if she had the same kind of troops, which she is sure they are....

Herbert Heilbrun did not care which theater he fought in as long as he was a part of the war. He got into training late...

Leonard Lomell and Sgt. Kuhn [Annotator's Note: US Army Staff Sergeant Jack Kuhn] kept advancing forward, but as luck...

While fighting in Europe, Warren Bowersox recalls returning from a contact patrol and being fired on by replacement...

James Craig thinks the war made him grow up. Before he was in the Army, all he knew how to do was farm. He has done a...

Mary Leisey was born in Honey Brooke, Pennsylvania. It was a small town of nearly 1,000 people. She enjoyed growing up...

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