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Jack Skaggs worked on roads in Shanghai as a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war]. The POWs could take food out to...

Lloyd Guillory had two eventful missions he would never forget. On a mission before he reached Ie-Shima, Guillory flew...

When the ship he returned home aboard was approaching San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], James...

In early September 1944, James Stewart Rosenbaum shipped out for the Pacific from San Diego [Annotator's Note: San...

Gravois had had plenty of amphibious landing training. He also had a lot of combat training in boot camp. He did a lot...

Edward Bruce Jennings never saw so many planes bombing a place. The naval bombardment was terrible as well. They could...

George A. Damiano fought in World War 2 because he felt like he should help his country. He felt he did not learn much...

Joseph F. McGee Junior's most vivid memory of World War 2 is the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the...

James Billingsley was in the mountains fighting and going down a gulley [Annotator's Note: in the Philippines]. Machine...

Joseph Townsend joined the service because his aunt who was a Marine convinced him to join. He is military-oriented and...

After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

Robert L. Donovan did not rely on his faith as much as people would think. He did not find himself praying very often....

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