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When Mack was going into Okinawa in the Higgins boat, he claims he had a vision. It was a vision of his mother. His...

Walter Nelson was only 19 years old at the time [Annotators Note: at the time of the Battle of the Coral Sea]. The USS...

Barbara Butler got her orders and flew to Seoul, Korea. She was sent to a replacement depot at an Army installation....

After a few days at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: near Hattiesburg, Mississippi], Ray Fitzgerald was sent to Saint...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

Michael Maziarczyk was ready to return home. It took them 12 hours to get from Hawaii to San Francisco [Annotator’s...

Charles Chartier thought he would go where it was nice and warm. He joined his outfit overseas. As they left Seattle,...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

George Colburn does not believe in bravery. The last thing on your mind is getting a medal. Medals counted for points...

Once Frank Pomroy was brought to the beach he was treated by a Navy corpsman and evacuated from Peleliu to a hospital...

Martin Sherbecoe was born in 1920 in Stamford, Connecticut. His father was a skilled mechanic and from a very early age...

Alvin Barnes heard an interesting story of a man who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings [...

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