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Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

During the day [Annotator's Note: during Bougainville campaign, part of the Solomon Islands Campaign at Bougainville,...

William Wayne had joined the Marine Corps with John Shepperly who got shot through the arm landing on Iwo Jima, Japan....

John Gehrett reached Sydney [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit, Gehrett reached Sydney,...

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

Clint Quirk was not assigned to a ship. [Annotator’s Note: Quirk was in the Merchant Marines]. He went into the union...

Robert L. Donovan did not rely on his faith as much as people would think. He did not find himself praying very often....

The train station manager said that the tracks were blown up and that passage to Yokahama would be impossible. Church...

Andrew Leblanc joined the Army because most of his friends were in the Army. He did not pick the Navy because he did...

Abraham Rosenzweig suffered from a punctured eardrum when an explosion occurred near his boat near the island [...

Martin Sherbecoe served for over eight months [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty in Japan] and earned enough points...

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