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Benjamin Hagans was sent to the west side of Mindanao [Annotator’s Note: Mindanao, the Philippines]. His job was to...

Donald Campbell was born in 1923 in Cedar Lake, Mississippi, the son of a sawmill worker. He grew up during the Great...

Calvin Moore left boot camp in September 1943. He attended his sister's funeral and returned in time to be shipped out...

Philip Mayer had been in the Pacific for 30 months and was in the assault wave on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...

Ben Steele worked two miles underground in a Japanese coal mine. It was very tight because of the way the ground...

After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

Taken back to the time when the USS Perch (SS-176) was forced to dive and was then depth charged in the shallow waters...

Richard R. Ruess believes it is significant to have The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans,...

James William Grimes was assigned as a mess cook. He was very young [Annotator's Note: he was only 16 years old, but...

Describing PT-371 [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat], Richard McEwen said that it had a big "day room" up front,...

After the war, Joseph Barger took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Henry Quinton Pike returned to the United States to be trained as a platoon instructor but he did not like that duty....

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