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Edmond Guidry came back [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] to the Philadelphia Navy Yard [Annotator's...

Hershel Williams does not remember knocking out some of the pillboxes. One of them, however, Williams remembers, ran...

When David Harvey heard that the war had ended, they had 1,500 planes up off the carriers. The British and Russians had...

In Iceland, Keith Renstrom took and passed the test for corporal. When he got back to San Diego, he took the test for...

Edward Chinnis' most memorable experience of World War 2 was going through a typhoon with 55 foot waves. He fought...

Paul J. Murphy had his first campaign [Annotator’s Note: as a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] in...

After the war ended, Charles A. Waller returned to the United States and was given a 30-day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Joe Morris and his unit [Annotator's Note: 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were anchored offshore the morning...

Forrest Villarrubia was born in 1925 in Lacombe, Louisiana. Lacombe is on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, just...

There would be holes in the line where there were not enough men [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1...

Benjamin Carson assessed the battle for Bougainville to be unique in the sense that the intent was not to capture the...

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior [Annotator's Note: with the 3rd Amphibious Corps] returned to the United Stated...

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