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The heat of our bodies is what saved their lives. They had charcoal heaters but were not given any charcoal. It was...

1 day a train loaded with bomb shells came into the camp and as it came through the camp a routine safety check found a...

The survivors hiked down the mountain to an enormous canoe that had paddlers down both sides with space in the middle....

Don Daniels became friends with men he served with. He only stayed in touch with three or four by exchanging Christmas...

William Leibold has been contacted numerous times by groups attempting to research various things. Leibold noted how...

Thomas Crosby remembered soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, they attacked the Philippines. Using...

Arles E. Cole left Pearl Harbor the next morning [Annotator’s Note: Cole was a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (...

James Newsom was assigned to the USS Sarsfield (DD-837) in New York. The Sarsfield was larger than his previous...

One of Crump’s friends was on watch on a ship that was torpedoed. Crump’s convoy had about 35 percent casualties. The...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Fred Wesighan enlisted in the Army after he graduated in high school because he "did not like people kicking around our...

Woody Woodall [Annotator's Note: Wendall Woodall] was born in March 1925 in Webster City, Iowa. They were so poor that...

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