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Soon after the Battle of the Philippines, Murphy Burke remembers spending a week at one of the larger ports, Ulithi....

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

[Annotator's Note: James Allen served in the Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class in the submarine service and was aboard the...

George Peto has doubts about the mental toughness of today's generation and its ability to wage a war as deadly and...

Rivers Richardson King thought the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] dive bomber was very...

Edward Chinnis was ready to go home after the war but he did have a lot of fun in the Navy. After leaving the Navy, he...

After the war, Fiske Hanley was involved in testifying against the Kenpeitai. By then, Hanley was married and had a...

When Claude Taylor turned 18, he enlisted in the Navy. His father had been in the Army in France in World War 1. The...

David Lansou was drafted into the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in 1943]. His parents were proud that their sons were...

In Japan, the men would have to kneel on round sticks for hours. Bruno S. Rinas did not have that happen to him. He met...

Fiske Hanley talks about the close calls he experienced during his first six missions over the Japanese home islands....

Following the war's conclusion, Claude Taylor sailed aboard LSM-352 [Annotator's Note: LSM stands for Landing Ship,...

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