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Paul Fair remembers it was sandy on the beach of New Guinea, then it turned into a jungle. The weapons he used did not...

Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...

Trinidad Ledesma feels that some of the kamikazes were fanatics and some were not. One had landed on Mindanao,...

Wesley Waggoner had a recommendation to join the Navy SeaBees or Construction Battalion [Annotator’s Note: Waggoner and...

Jacques Brewster Smith and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

While in the Philippines, Charles Chatterton's vessel [Annotator's Note: LCI(L)-334, Landing Craft Infantry (Large)]...

David R. Saunders saw his first combat at Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Luzon, Philippines]. He was not injured...

Peter "Pete" Behr's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the landing at Leyte [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Fighting in the Leyte Valley area lasted for two brutal months, and John Smith related the tale of the event that...

James Gulotta landed in the Philippines on Leyte on the Ormoc Peninsula. This is where he did most of his fighting....

Robert J. "Bob" Brasel and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 1st Platoon, Battery C, 389th Antiaircraft Artillery (...

William Beaman was 18 years old when he participated in his first submarine patrol in the Pacific, and he said he didn'...

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