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Clark Wackerman was born in March 1926 in Brighton, New York, the oldest of three children. His father worked as a...

Dee Wayne White was born in September 1929 in Chester, Idaho. At age eight, his parents divorced, and he moved with his...

George Peto has kept numerous photographs and documents from and regarding the war and shared them with interviewer....

While heading to the invasion of Iwo Jima, Richard Nummer's convoy of ships was joined by numerous ships at Saipan....

[Annotator's Note: Andrew Petrus' wife talks about her family offscreen.] Andrew Petrus had a friend who bought a hotel...

William S. “Bill” Beamish [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 77th Bombardment Squadron] was stationed on Attu [...

Raymond Urban was born in September 1920 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. They left there when he was young and moved around...

Harold Rosen was born in Dallas, Texas in April 1925. His father owned his own business so the depression did not hit...

Fred L. Keller, Jr. helped load bombs on torpedo planes, TBMs [Annotator's Note: Keller served as an ordnanceman aboard...

David Heath transferred to Guadalcanal, 26 miles from the island of Tulagi [Annotator's Note: both in the Solomon...

Jacob Velfling, Jr. was born in Cadillac, Michigan in May 1926. Velfling played many sports in high school and had a...

Deployment overseas for William Pierce was originally to be to Saipan. Because that battle had ended, Pierce's ship was...

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