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Walter Nelson had a different pilot for his first raid. The pilot’s name was Lieutenant Womper [Annotators Note: unsure...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

Claude Shannahan got out of the Marine Corps and returned to Mount Clemens, Michigan. His father owned a bar and...

Allen Horton was born in 1921 in Middletown, Connecticut, a congregational minister's son. His father's profession...

Home base for William Beaman and the USS Flasher (SS-249) was Perth, Australia. At the end of a two month mission, the...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the other internees at Santo Tomas [Annotator's Note: Santo Tomas Internment Camp,...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs was born in December 1922 in New Haven Connecticut. His father was a World War 1 veteran who had a...

Floyd James Reissig was hit by shrapnel from one of his own guns. While they were firing, the shrapnel hit him, causing...

Frank Pomroy estimates that the Japanese battleship bombardment [Annotator's Note: on the Marine positions on...

World War 2 made Whayland Harvel Greene appreciate food, water, and shelter. He had no food for five days during his...

Irwin R. Schneider was born in August 1921 in Newark, New Jersey. He was raised there. His father was a school teacher...

Edward F. Kent and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 602nd Field Artillery Battalion (Pack)] were selected for a special...

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