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Robert W. "RW" Pratt's most memorable experience was 7 April [Annotator's Note: 7 April 1945, during Battle of Okinawa...

Ervin Markwald served with the 77th Division [Annotator's Note: 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division] during...

Arles E. Cole missed breakfast and woke a few minutes before eight o’clock in the morning [Annotator’s Note: Cole was a...

As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

When the Battle of the Tenaru River ended, Lieutenant Port recommended Frank Stewart for the Navy Cross but the captain...

After being assigned to the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) [Annotator's Note: sometimes referred to as "Indy"], Edgar Harrell...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

Louis Zamperini was converted in 1949. In 1951, he returned to Japan, particularly to visit Sugamo Prison because he...

Bruno S. Rinas left Cabanatuan [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war camp near Cabanatuan City, Philippines] and embarked...

Harold Buell was on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] only a brief time before being reassigned. He...

Wim de Jonge's Japanese captors disrespected the POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. Prisoners would be beaten...

While teaching in Wausau, Wisconsin, F. Lincoln Grahlfs read about the National Association of Atomic Veterans and...

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