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While she was in boot camp, Verna White's daily routine started at five in the morning, followed by calisthenics and...

Hilar Moore was shipped to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands] after the invasion started. He took...

Landing on 1 April [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], Joe Clapper's platoon went into Okinawa right below Kadena, with...

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

Robert J. Ferris was born in January 1922 in Pittsford, New York. He had one older brother. His father worked as a...

John Stiles took part in the occupation of Japan. He had to get a driver's license for Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Norman Hatch, along with a group of other servicemen, boarded a train for Washington DC on a Sunday morning. Most of...

Gravois had had plenty of amphibious landing training. He also had a lot of combat training in boot camp. He did a lot...

Back in North Dakota after the war, Verna White waited for six months for her husband to return home from occupation...

Hilar Moore arrived at Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19 February through 26 March 1945] and the Navy...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

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

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