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

After a successful operation on Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands], Edward E. Boyles...

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

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

The only thing Phineas Stevens remembers about Corregidor [Annotator's Note: Corregidor Island, Luzon, Philippines] is...

John Bellecci boarded a ship from California to Australia. The ship went alone in September 1943. It was a converted...

Oran Harris said the Americans went first by sea in pursuit of the Japanese that had retreated into the mountains of...

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

Within a few miles of Aparri [Annotator's Note: Aparri, Philippines], Leo V. Strausbaugh met up with Major Connolly [...

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

Theodore Pavlovich discussed the effectiveness of the weapons he used during his time as an infantryman. He also...

It took them 12 days to get back to California [Annotator's Note: returning from Japan after the war]. Emmett Kaylor...

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