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There was a small passageway that went all the way up the side of the ship to the front of the ship. It was lined with...

Frederick Ellis's points were up, and he was entitled to go home. He got a new officer on board [Annotator's Note: USS...

Henry Bourgeois' first air to air combat was over Bougainville. When the dive bombers went into their dive, the entire...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen served in the Navy as a gunner aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413).] From there...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the Marines on Wake Island had heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was serving stateside near the war's end. He was assigned to shore patrol in Hollywood [Annotator's...

It was Walter Bank's first time in the Pacific, and he found it "different." Few Japanese spoke English, and he had to...

Theodore Robert Tanner thinks himself very fortunate that he never needed to target human beings, and instead dropped...

Lionel Lopez was born in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in August 1921. He is 84 years old. He...

Gerald West spent 1944 in an OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, the pre-runner of the CIA] training...

[Annotator's Note: Leonard Brooks and his family lived just outside of Manila in the Philippines. Following the...

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