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Alfred Rodrigues wanted to be an engineer in the Navy. He found that the engine room was very hot and he passed out in...

[Annotator's Note: Wendall Woodall served in the US Army Air Forces as a blister gunner on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress...

William Barnes was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After high school he attended Bowling Green Business...

One morning, Richard Thelen saw a plane fly over him and he knew that he was about to be rescued [Annotator's Note: USS...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. They were based out of Guam [...

Ray Camp was on Iwo Jima [Annotator’s Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] when the war ended. He went to work for the post office...

Yellin went to witness the ceremony in 2006. He met a few different Japanese soldiers and American military personnel...

The first time William J. Twigger took fire from the Japanese was on 18 May [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of...

Sam L. Miller reported aboard the USS Edgecombe (APA-164) in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California...

Miller Lampell, who had written a radio program, was assigned by the New York Herald Tribune to write Ben Kuroki's...

Paul J. Frisco enlisted in the Navy because of his father's service during World War 1 and because of the Navy's...

Emil Kesselman’s discharge date was set for August 1950 and he went home to New York, and to work at Brillo [Annotator’...

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