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Paul Kerchum was born in January 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio. His father was a Russian immigrant and his mother his mother...

Clarence Becker was based at Harmon Field, also called Depot Field [Annotator's Note: now Harmon Air Force Base on Guam...

Richard Tempus Dixon was assigned to the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop YR-69, in...

John Nicholas was a Seaman 2nd Class deck hand when he went aboard the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)]....

During his time in the Samar Islands, the Philippines, William Schrader [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 23rd...

Wallace McKay's most memorable experience of the war was going to Japan. It was memorable because of how docile the...

Most of the time, they got along with the Filipinos. Stinson notes that any foreigner who comes in and occupies another...

Dupuy flew air support for the Marines who were landing on Tinian [Annotators Note: July 1944]. The invasion took...

Edward Lee Allesandro was born in April 1923 in Denver, Colorado, and grew up mostly in Pueblo, Colorado. He left high...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm was called into personnel one day [Annotator’s Note: Boehm was working toward acceptance as...

[Annotator's Note: All of the locations listed in this clip are in the Philippines.] Robert Prince remembers New Year's...

Jake Ussery and the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] were ordered back to San Diego. That was his base...

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