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Stewart Bass participated in the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato on 7 April 1945. Weather conditions were not...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were first attacked by Japanese suicide aircraft in the Lingayen...

William Lutz thought there would be more firing of weapons. He sat behind a machine gun. It was different from the...

In the Philippines, Theodore Pavlovich recalled searching hut-to-hut in a village where the natives had tried to ensure...

Trinidad Ledesma was born in November 1924 in Downey, California. His parents did not speak English. They only spoke...

Arthur Fishman is a World War 2 Navy veteran. He had three sons and several grandchildren, and his wife passed away. He...

Lawrence Brooks was drafted in 1940 and went for basic training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. By November [Annotator's...

On 31 December 1945, Monroe Scherer landed in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan; after leaving occupation duty in...

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

Frederick Stent was born in August 1923 in Charleston, South Carolina. He did a lot of traveling around the large...

When Robert G. Aldous first got to Mindoro [Annotator's Note: Mindoro, Philippines in January 1945 with the 319th...

Albert Simon fought for his country. He was drafted. He fought for the United States flag. He changed from a civilian...

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