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Leo William Schmittgens remembered after all the firing ceased [Annotator's Note: after a firefight during the Battle...

Benjamin Albert Glusing's men [Annotator's Note: in the 208th Military Police Company] saved themselves, other men,...

Shortly after the attack on the ammunition ship at Darwin, Australia, Richard Micklich [Annotator’s Note: serving as a...

The last mission Maynard David flew was on 30 August [Annotator's Note: 30 August 1945]. It was an air-sea rescue...

William Hall reached Sand Island in the Midway Atoll with his personal equipment. Midway was a stopping point for Pan-...

Victor K. Carman joined the Navy because he did not want to be a foot soldier in the Army or Marines. He had flown a...

Charles A. Waller was born in August 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in the suburb of West Roxbury. He was...

In 1944 as a senior in high school, Howard Cain avoided the draft by enlisting in the Army Air Force. He was gung-ho...

Ray Eshelman knew everybody was going to be drafted. There was also a universal interest in joining the service and...

Chris Carawan was born in 1926 in Washington, North Carolina into a family of seagoing people. His father was a sea...

During the surrender, Bruno S. Rinas was sick, or he would have run into the hills. He discussed it with some comrades...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the US Marine Corps] served in World War 2. He was on active duty in...

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