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Richard Greer experienced some bayonet fighting during the Battle for Henderson Field but more so at Point Cruz. They...

Tyler feels Pearl Harbor was a strategic error of the Japanese. Over night people were lining up to enlist. After the...

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

William Cart and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 141 (VMSB-141)] were going to get on an...

Paul Franklin believes it is important for kids to learn about World War 2. He thinks it will teach them to be more...

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

William Scott Stroud and his crew carried out 39 strategic bombing missions. [Annotator's Note: Having been shot down...

Thomas A. Tizzard Jr. was born in July 1924 in Echo, Louisiana. His family owned a farm and in 1938 they moved to New...

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

William S. “Bill” Beamish was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1923 and grew up in nearby Wellesley Hills. His father,...

James McEnery is a Catholic, Irish-American from Brooklyn. He considers anyone from his background who is not...

Edward Riedl remembers that Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] was different than Leyte [Annotator's Note:...

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