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After enduring an artillery barrage in a coconut grove, William Garbo's unit [Annotator's Note: G Troop, 2nd Squadron,...

The news [Annotator's Note: of the atomic bombs being dropped] reached Thomas J. Bostick's unit [Annotator's Note:...

After completing basic training in the Army, Richard Hebert, Sr. was shipped to California and then boarded a troop...

On 4 February [Annotator's Note: 4 February 1945] Curtis Brooks looked out and saw all of the American military. Right...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen served in the Navy as a gunner aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413).] From there...

One time that scared William Beaman happened when the USS Flasher (SS-249) was firing electric torpedoes. They were...

Edward Bruce Jennings spent 20 or 21 months overseas. He was shipped over in 1944 to Finschhafen, New Guinea attached...

Trinidad Ledesma volunteered to be a code clerk in headquarters where he thought he would be safer. He was shown a...

Jacques Brewster Smith remembers the island of Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] being all jungle and...

Thomas Amico island-hopped for a year; the war was winding down; the big naval battles were over. Amico doesn't...

On 18 August 1944, Frederick Grun left the United States on the HMS Empire Mace along with 200 enlisted men, a number...

Robert L. Donovan did not rely on his faith as much as people would think. He did not find himself praying very often....

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