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The ship [Annotator's Note: the aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13)] wasn't at Pearl Harbor for long before heading...

Robert G. Aldous went to Wichita Falls, Texas to Sheppard Field in August [Annotator's Note: August 1943] and it was "...

The first thing that happened to Harry McKnight when he reached boot camp was a haircut. He was then given a rifle and...

Paris Tognoli made the invasion on Cebu [Annotator's Note: 26 March 1945, Cebu Island, Philippines, part of the Battle...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

Walter Jacobs thought that the Japanese were not normal people. They were fanatics. They were good at sneaking around...

Frank Savage was surprised to be relieving the 31st Infantry Division on Mindanao. That division was hit hard in the...

After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

Richard Higgins joined the Marine Corps in 1940. He was set on the Marine Corps from the beginning. He never considered...

Phoutrides took part in the Normandy invasion. He knew what was happening but couldn't understand the enormity of the...

Alfred Rodrigues identified Japanese aircraft by the large circles on their wings. It was Sunday and he had just sat...

Colonel John Acree Reeder was born in January 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended the Boeing School of...

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