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Clint Quirk tried to get into the Navy, but he needed seaman papers. The longshoremen told him to go to the Army...

When David Harvey heard that the war had ended, they had 1,500 planes up off the carriers. The British and Russians had...

After Guadalcanal, James Gulotta went to Bougainville. They did a lot of heavy fighting on Bougainville. The Marines...

For William Winter, basic training was different [Annotator's Note: different than his previous experiences at Ole Miss...

A few weeks after the battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Midway, 4 to 6 June 1942], Leon Williamson returned to Ewa [...

On the day American forces arrived [Annotator's Note: 3 February 1945 at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...

Jack D. Samuelson saw his first combat at Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg...

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

Bombing Japan was a joint effort, according to Donald F. Goyette. He remembers loading bombs onto his squadron's [...

When Woods would go into Times Square young servicemen would give them trouble about why they weren't in the service....

Harry A. Donovan believes it is important to have institutions like The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New...

Nick Cristiano says the Japanese guards [Annotator's Note: at Ofuna prisoner of war camp, Kamakura, Japan] were bored...

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