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Arthur Pendleton does not recall to much more about Cape Gloucester. There was nothing pleasant about it and he was...

Following the end of the war, Harold Joslin remained in Japan briefly. The former captives were brought to a landing...

James Billingsley got extra points for his medals towards coming home. He went into a depot and had to take everything...

Basilone [Annotator's Note: Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone] and his guys went ashore in the third wave. William...

Calvin Barrick was transferred to the USS Searaven (SS-196) which was an older submarine based out of Pearl Harbor. He...

After the Battle of the Tenaru [Annotator's Note: also called the Battle of the Ilu River, 21 August 1942, Guadalcanal...

Floyd Annas had always wanted to fly and enlisting in the Army Air Corps was a way to do it. He was sent to Miami Beach...

Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

Yamamoto [Annotator's Note: Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet] did not receive...

Charles Wesley Borders heard about Roosevelt's [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the...

They [Annotators Note: the dive bombers] would cut the engines if nothing came back from the PBY's and call it a day [...

James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

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