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Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. drove his truck to multiple locations on Wake Island in support of the defenders. The huge...

Lyle Bird was assigned as a signalman and bugler aboard the USS Okanogan (APA-220) in the Pacific at the end of the war...

Glenn Frazier was in the Philippines on 8 December 1941 when the war started. [Annotator's Note: The date difference is...

When the flag went up on Mt. Suribachi [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, February 1945], Hershel Williams was too busy in...

After leaving the Pacific, Lloyd Dendy was sent to the Key West Naval Operating Base [Annotator's Note: Naval Base Key...

Charles Graves Chauncey bought a lot of souvenirs and alcohol while in Cuba. They returned to McCook, Nebraska and...

Bloody Ridge had other names but that night it was officially named Bloody Ridge. It was the one spot that the Japanese...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] associated...

While on Guam, Orville Carroll and some men built a small bamboo chapel, where they would sing without instruments....

Leonard Brooks and the other internees had no idea that they were scheduled to be killed at nine on the morning of 23...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Werner walked out of Austria in August 1938 and made it by train to Geneva, Switzerland.]...

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was sent...

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