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Paul J. Frisco felt comfortable around some of the officers on the USS Cushing (DD-797). With others, he was not as...

Raymond Urban was born in September 1920 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. They left there when he was young and moved around...

Frank Pomroy and his fellow Marines walked down to the sandspit at the mouth of the Tenaru River and stared at the dead...

David Heath was born in November 1921 in Toppenish, Washington. When he was seven, his family moved to Montana. While...

When Astley Blackwell got in the water he realized that his life belt had a hole in it. He grabbed a keg which had come...

Quintana was born in McComb, Mississippi on December 15th, 1921. McComb was a railroad town. The majority of the...

Robert L. Donovan was drafted. He wanted to enlist in the Air Force. He had hay fever so they did not let him enlist....

Chris Carawan said the Americans were not prepared for what happened in Belgium. They didn't have food, they lived on K...

When the 2nd Marine Division shipped out from New Zealand only the battalion commanders knew the specifics of the...

About a day away from Hawaii, while John H. Cole was headed for Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes [Annotator's Note: drafted into the Army in late 1943] was transferred to the 246th...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

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