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Homer Myers was born in Union Grove, North Carolina in October 1924. His parents worked hard on a little farm. He got...

Karen K. Lewis was born in 1932 in Glendale, California. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

Thomas Kolesa feels he had the best education he could have ever gotten from the Marine Corps. When he got into...

Philip Mayer was a sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

Clyde Barber’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was his “Black Cat” operation and rescuing Australians. He...

In Harold DeForest's platoon there were two squads of machine guns and three squads of mortars. There were about 12 men...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the Battle of Surigao Strait. The new and more...

O'Callahan [Annotator's Note: Medal of Honor recipient US Navy Captain Joseph T. O'Callahan] was all over the place. He...

The 24th [Annotator's Note: 24 December 1941] was the same; no water and no food. They could barely talk. On the...

Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] got a message from the Naval Air Station [Annotator's...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled that one day [Annotator's Note: one day while he was taking part in the Battle of...

Lionel Lopez remembers that they took a ship to Australia, but ended up in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San...

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