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Stanley Fagerstrom was a corporal going into an outfit that was already established in combat. He was attached to...

Irwin Schneider learned how to obtain needed ammunition and how to safely load added weapons and ammo on a PT boat. He...

[Annotator's Note: William Smith was shot down while attacking Kavieng, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.] They were on...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a flying instructor with the US Army Air Forces] was sent to school to...

The boats were scattered around little islands, each with a pier, and Richard McEwen said the sailors ate their meals...

Stanley Fagerstrom left New Guinea on 15 November 1944. The Japanese came across the Pacific in the beginning. They...

After the landings at Cape Gloucester [Annotator's Note: Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea], Mark Brannon...

William Smith was in Australia for about two weeks. They pulled some shenanigans. He and his crew were sent to Brisbane...

William Garbo was born in 1924 in Laurel, Mississippi. He was in high school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor....

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, 5th Air...

Describing PT-371 [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat], Richard McEwen said that it had a big "day room" up front,...

For Clyde Barber’s second deployment, he returned to Patrol Squadron 11 (VP-11) stationed at Kaneohe Bay Naval Air...

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