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After John Edmund Murman joined the Navy, he attended boot camp and advanced training for fire control in Newport,...

William Burkett had gotten there [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines then Japan] two weeks after the war was over. At...

Joseph Orlando was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January 1922. He was the 11th child born but four of his...

On one occasion, Edwin Knight removed a wounded man downhill by following a telephone wire. The wire split and changed...

Robert Offenbacher thought he grew up in the Army. The major was tough and a big man. The company drunk took a jeep and...

Benjamin Hagans was sent to the west side of Mindanao [Annotator’s Note: Mindanao, the Philippines]. His job was to...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker goes by Gene because he liked being greeted that way. He was born in June 1926 in Cushing,...

Reneau Breard and his unit [Annotator’s Note: with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] were...

John S. Johnson and the Marines on Wake Island continued to be bombed daily by the Japanese after the enemy ships had...

Prior to shipping out, Sammy Ray's professor and advisor from Louisiana State University, Doctor Lowry, put him in...

As Charles Balaza prepared to enter Cabanatuan, he had access to a water pump and filled his canteen. The Japanese said...

Carl Landwehr was able to get a letter to his mother telling her of his being wounded, before the Army went to tell her...

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