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Chester Hollingsworth did not have much fun in basic training. The trainees were assigned ten to a tent. Besides...

The Grumman Wildcat [Annotator's Note: Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft] was a beautiful aircraft, according to...

After Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Raymond Gimbut sailed to California, then to the...

Harlan Twible may have had nightmares after the war but it was nothing he could not handle. He left active duty the...

After the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: the surrender was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on 15 August...

Billy Grieves made 11 runs on the submarine Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)]. He left the Thresher...

Aboard ship, Wahlen's platoon leader would talk to his men about what to expect when they landed [Annotators Note: on...

Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...

James Paul Lynch says the FM radar [Annotator's Note: or FM sonar, high-frequency, short-range sonar using frequency...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the other internees were very leery of their Japanese captors. They were not all bad...

Martin Sherbecoe remembered that the curfew on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was very strict....

The first island the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) approached was Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Tarawa, Gilbert Islands], and...

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