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The 96th Division [Annotator's Note: 96th Infantry Division] spent Christmas [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1944] on...

[Annotator's Note: Dale Smith served in the Navy aboard the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19) and was at Kamakura,...

James Bowie joined the Marine Corps. He only knew what he saw in the newsreels. He had an uncle who served in the Navy...

John Nicholas's ship, the USS Gayety (AM-239), participated in submarine chasing in the Pacific. He set the depth...

Adolph Wilson arrived in San Diego for Marine training after three days of travel on a train from New Orleans. The men...

William Wayne has two bad memories of Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. The first was going across open land and...

Hersey Goodwin does not remember his first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 11th Bombardment Group, 7th Air Force]....

Louis Block graduated from high school in June 1944. They discussed the war, but not at length. They were more focused...

The Japanese were treated wrongly and were put into concentration camps [Annotator's Note: forced relocation and...

It was a wonderful experience. Stinson would not trade a million dollars for his experience in World War II. On average...

The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. heard that the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had bombed Pearl...

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