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After the Battle of the Tenaru [Annotator's Note: also called the Battle of the Ilu River, 21 August 1942, Guadalcanal...

Richard Miralles thought Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] was miserable. They had mud on...

Charles Wesley Borders moved to Biak [Annotator's Note: Biak, Western New Guinea], then Halmahera [Annotator's Note:...

Raymond Birdsall was born in Lockport, Louisiana. In 1941, he went over to the high school because they did not have a...

Church was able to keep his wits about him during his prisoner experience because every man he was with was in the same...

Harold Zeringer and several of his friends decided to enlist in the United States Navy on 9 December 1941, just a few...

Morris Semiatin [Annotator's Note: wounded in the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan, 19 February to 26 March 1945, while...

When the Laffey left Pearl Harbor she was assigned as a escort for an old battleship heading out into the Pacific to...

After the war ended, William Beaman was sent back to San Francisco, California on the USS Flasher (SS-249), then...

Louis R. Lepore did not take part in the practice invasions at Maui [Annotator's Note: Maui, Hawaii] before going to...

David McKinley Blackwell served as a cook with the 30th Evacuation Hospital in the Pacific Theater. Not only did he...

Walter Bank's family lived on a small farm, and wasn't greatly affected by the Great Depression. They never talked...

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