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Ray Felts got orders to go back to Port Hueneme, California where he was updating records, and noticed the Navy was...

John Mikus, Jr. was with the old paratroopers on Vella Lavella [Annotator's Note: Battle of Vella Lavella, 15 August to...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...

Tyler feels Pearl Harbor was a strategic error of the Japanese. Over night people were lining up to enlist. After the...

James Bowie knew the war was still going on when he was going home. Many of the men had war souvenirs. They were told...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Barrick served in the US Navy aboard the submarine USS Tang (SS-306) and was aboard for that...

Aboard his first ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Guadalupe (AO-32)], Lawrence Winnier was an officer's attendant. He...

It was Walter Bank's first time in the Pacific, and he found it "different." Few Japanese spoke English, and he had to...

Lloyd Dendy was in the advance party [Annotator's Note: of the 12th Defense Battalion] on the first day at Cape...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BARman, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th...

Starting in December 1943, John Smith was on New Guinea preparing for combat in the Admiralty Islands. They landed on...

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