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Before being shipped out as a replacement to the Pacific, Robert Leroy Shirkey was put on guard duty at the wharves in...

The one other combat action Carl Rieman experienced in the Philippines occurred in the Surigao Strait. The whole fleet...

Edwin Knight and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 169th Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division] advanced on Hill 355....

Philip Grass got a pistol from Negros [Annotator’s Note: Negros, Philippines]. They had a machine gun and two BARs [...

Arthur Smith says that when they were sinking Japanese luggers [Annotator's Note: slang for cargo ships], the often...

The fact that John McGlohon is one of the living eye witnesses to the first atomic explosion, and that he was on site...

Mort Oman was sent to New Guinea and joined the 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire controller and trained for...

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

Carlos Reed does not think about his service much. He has memories of the war, but he does not think it made a...

James Billingsley was in the mountains fighting and going down a gulley [Annotator's Note: in the Philippines]. Machine...

Gwendolyn Mugliston and her family were liberated from the Los Baños Internment Camp and taken to Bilibid Prison for...

After graduating from Navy training, Sam S. McKeel was assigned to LST-579 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] and...

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