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Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

Lawrence N. Brooks was born in 1909 in Norwood, Louisiana, near Baton Rouge. Most of his youth was spent near...

To Harry Quinn, combat was the closest thing to Hell that a person could experience. Sleep was disrupted at night by...

Sidney Philips remembers explosions everywhere. Small arms fire everywhere. The total concern was for yourself. It is...

Theodore Wessen had the support of his mother when he joined the Navy. There were two siblings still at home with her....

[Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Barrick served in the US Navy aboard the submarine USS Tang (SS-306) and was aboard during...

David Roderick was discharged as soon as the war was over. When he was home he had bad dreams and once he hit the...

When Michael Doi and the rest of the 100th Battalion were on the French Italian border they were allowed passes to go...

Martin Carmody did his flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas. When he graduated nine months later he was sent to San...

Robert Judd was born in September 1920 in Oak Park, Illinois. The third of four children, he had twin older brothers...

William Douglas Lansford was born in 1922 in Los Angeles. His father was an Anglo from Texas and his mother was a...

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