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World War 2 changed Francis Bucher's life for the better. He matured a lot faster. He had a better understanding of...

Murphy Burke continued his training while he waited for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Yarnell (DD-541)] to be...

Norman Hatch filmed the battle on Tarawa with black and white 35mm film, but most of the rest of his photographers shot...

Most of Nick Cristiano's bombing missions started in the evening. He would call the meal before leaving "the last...

Harold C. Cook grew up in Warren, Ohio. He was the youngest in the family. He had a brother who was popular and active...

William Goldsborough served during World War 2 because he had no choice; there was a draft and he had to go "at the...

Julian Trist Bringier McConnell’s boat [Annotator's Note: McConnell served as an officer aboard patrol torpedo boats,...

Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....

John Nicholas first experienced an aerial attack on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Gayety (AM-239)] a few months...

They went directly into Ormoc Bay [Annotator's Note: Philippines]. Once the troops landed the kamikazes started to...

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

On 7 December 1941, Edmund Aziz and his fiancée were watching a matinee in Detroit, Michigan. When they came out of the...

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