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Erik Johnsen, a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine says that New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1920s was active with all...

Donald Marsaglia was born in Coal City, Illinois in April 1924. Coal City was a small town of about 1,300 people....

James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

Ittsei Nakagawa was born in Fresno, California and lived in Orange Cove [Annotator's Note: Orange Cove, California] in...

Harold Hauberg was born and raised in Nebraska City, Nebraska in July 1918. He entered the service in 1938, when the...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was born in December 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he was seven, he spent the summer at...

Thomas A. Tizzard Jr. was born in July 1924 in Echo, Louisiana. His family owned a farm and in 1938 they moved to New...

Leo Denault was shipped to Ieshima [Annotator’s Note: Ieshima, Japan]. They were still clearing the jungle. This is...

William Cart was born in April 1922 in Charleston [Annotator's Note: Charleston, South Carolina]. He grew up on the...

Edmund Aziz and his ship [Annotator’s Note: with the USS Reeves (DE-156), converted to an attacked transport as APD-52...

When John H. Cole got home, he returned to the farm and realized it was not the way he would make his living. He tried...

Walter Broll always had a haircut on Saturday. He would then go to confession since he was raised a Catholic. On one...

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