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Norman Kleiss went to the ready room. The weather was very cloudy with just a few patches of open sky. A Japanese plane...

Marvin Hill went to the Parcel Post building in Richmond to enlist, and underwent a physical. He was rejected, and told...

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

Lloyd Guillory was sent to Japan near Kanagawa two weeks after the war ended. Things were disorganized. The squadron [...

Richard McEwen was born in Silver Creek, New York, and lived there with his parents and two siblings until he was eight...

Hugh Wingo and his unit trained at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] for a while before they went...

Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...

Joseph Fisher joined the Navy in 1942. His big brother was in the Navy. They used to swim a lot growing up. Fisher was...

A call went out for volunteers and Battery H, 11th Marine Regiment sent five people to the front to help out. Three of...

Jacques Brewster Smith's company commander [Annotator's Note: of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry...

When he returned to Singapore, Wim de Jonge ended up in the same prison where he had previously been held. [Annotator’s...

Frank Savage was sent to Fort McClellan, Alabama. His aunt made a uniform for him so he could arrive with something...

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