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Edwin Henlebin described the beachhead as glutted with supplies. The problem was getting the material from the beach to...

Harold Bergbower retired from the Air Force after 30 years of service. He enjoyed playing golf. He went to work at the...

William J. Twigger's duty [Annotator's Note: with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 29th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division]...

[Annotator's Note: Archibald Rackerby was wounded by friendly fire while training on Guadalcanal on 9 March 1944.]...

Alvin Barnes heard an interesting story of a man who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings [...

Lester Hecht returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Coast Guard boat. He was sent...

During the second Truk raid Alexander Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group...

Because the war in Europe had begun to die down and the need for additional pilots was decreasing by the time he...

The last time Richard Cole saw the old man [Annotator's Note: USAF General James H. Doolittle] was in 1992. Several of...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. arrived in New Guinea at an airbase formed out of the jungle [Annotator's Note: he was a tail...

As the United States Armed Forces got closer to Japan, Claude Bufford Shaw felt more vindicated for the loss of his...

James did not realize that he was shot right away. He knew he was hit but the pain did not register. He went down below...

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