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After leaving the Air Force, Hersey Goodwin went back to get his master's degree. He returned to his hometown [...

Donald H. "Don" Bee served two years in the Navy. He heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons...

Walter Broll and his ship the Grace Abbott were in the harbor of Bari, Italy for two weeks before the attack took place...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine during World War 2. As a result of the war, his father realized his dream...

The B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] was a four engine bomber. Hersey Goodwin has read...

Adolph Wilson was a platoon sergeant on Iwo Jima but acted as a lieutenant after the officers were wounded or killed....

Thomas Tizzard was on the USS Denver (CL-58) at Bougainville, covering the landing troops. They would bombard the...

John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...

Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

John Mikus, Jr. was born in Meadow Lands, Pennsylvania in October 1921. His father was a coal miner. Mikus had seven...

[Annotator's Note: Malcolm Ernest was a prisoner of war at Camp O'Donnell on Luzon, Philippines.] Ernest was among a...

Daniel J. Lawler [Annotator's Note: serving with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in...

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