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Stewart Bass was trained to be a naval aviator. The first months involved college type training at St. Mary's College...

Sam L. Miller was born in September 1926 and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He was an only child because his mother could...

After David Lamar Mealor contracted a bad case of jungle rot in New Guinea, he was shipped back to the United States on...

In March or April [Annotator's Note: March or April 1944], Donald Draxler returned to Schofield Barracks [Annotator's...

There were usually 24 planes in James Bazet's squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighting Squadron 223 (VMF-223)], and...

Russell Gackenbach had no idea where Tinian was located when he arrived there. He only knew it was close to Japan. At...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After a couple of...

The most significant thing to occur during the Battle of Midway that allowed for American victory is up for debate....

Clifford Albert Hahn was born in August 1922 in Freemansburg, Pennsylvania. There were ten siblings in the family. His...

[Annotators Note: Giles Bacon enlisted in the USMC in January 1939. He was assigned as a brig guard at Pearl Harbor and...

Lester Hecht says there a couple of stories he cannot tell. [Annotator's Note: Hecht laughs.] When his ship pulled into...

When Mack was going into Okinawa in the Higgins boat, he claims he had a vision. It was a vision of his mother. His...

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