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Bob Bartlett [Annotator's Note: assigned to USS Barnett (APA-5)], was up most of the night before the invasion of...

William Rupp felt it was time to go into the Navy just before he reached 18 years of age. He told his parents that he...

Andrew Leblanc joined the Army because most of his friends were in the Army. He did not pick the Navy because he did...

Robert Harvey Heinly had to get ready to go overseas in April 1944 [Annotator's Note: with the 3463rd Ordnance Medium...

Stanley Berman's [Annotator's Note: with the 8th Air Force] daily routine overseas was waking up, going to wash up in...

Jack Taylor participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. His air group from the USS Essex (CV-9) was tasked with attacking...

Clayton Hall was born in Harvey County on a farm near Newton [Annotator's Note: Newton, Kansas]. His father was in...

William “Bill” Knapp learned how tenuous life is and how men can hate each other during the Second World War. Hating is...

Bruce Estes’ battalion [Annotator’s Note: 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division] was driving...

Daniel Szafran was already a member of the Palmach [Annotator's Note: "storm troops," the elite force of the Haganah,...

Lorraine Mesken remembers the Sunday that Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: Sunday, 7 December 1941] started...

Curtis Brooks knew the Americans were approaching the Philippines. In 1944, the Japanese military posture in the...

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