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Cass Phillips was born in Pampa, Texas in April 1920. The doctor ran late to his delivery. The family moved off a farm...

Edward Chinnis was born in August 1924 in Ravenel, South Carolina. After graduating high school Chinnis had a...

Donald F. Goyette boarded the SS John Land [Annotator's Note: USS John Land (AP-167)], a makeshift troop ship, that did...

Romus Burgin and the 5th Marines [Annotator's Note: 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were among the first to...

They [Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher and his rear seat gunner George Fergusson] were taken to a sick bay in the bow [...

When Mervin Jensen received his draft notice, he thought everyone else had to go so he would to. He went to Fort...

The US Navy had planes ready to help out at Wake Island but the admiral in charge figured that it was going to be too...

They were two days at sea when the PA system came on informing them that the group was headed for Tokyo [Annotators...

The discipline in the Marine Corps helped to make Deens life successful. He is glad that he went through it and the...

Lazarick heard President Roosevelt's speech [Annotator's Note: Roosevelt's speech to Congress which he gave on 8...

In his second year at Yale [Annotator's Note: Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut], Walter Joseph Patrick Curley...

William Lutz liked boot camp because he got a rifle. He liked the firing range. He became a gunner after basic training...

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