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Melvin C. Whitman was surprised the Japanese did not fight back against the invasion [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Benjamin Albert Glusing's friends operated the prisoner of war stockade on New Caledonia. Glusing liked to visit his...

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

Calvin Barrick grew up on a farm. He had four brothers and one sister but two of his brothers have died. Barrick was...

On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Sunday, 7 December 1941], J. W. Childs saw one Japanese...

Paul Sparacino thought the explosions were unreal [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5)...

Ben Steele knew things were getting tense when he was sent overseas. When he got to Hawaii, he received orders to go to...

Edgar Harrell was floating in the Pacific Ocean with a life jacket while other were not [Annotator's Note: after he...

Tenney's first contact with the Japanese was on the morning of the 10th [Annotators Note: April 10, 1942] in a bivouac...

When he went into combat for the first time, Steve McMurray said he, like everyone else, was scared. When he came upon...

Benjamin Clark Amsden [Annotator's Note: a Navy fighter pilot in World War 2] belongs to an association called the...

Frederick Jenkins thought it was hard to get organized. He had a school teacher as his company commander during boot...

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