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A day after William Garbo and his machine gun squad successfully ambushed a group of Japanese soldiers in a mountain...

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

John Geiger was security for the officer while on missions. They took the officer wherever he wanted to go. Every...

Lester Hecht says there a couple of stories he cannot tell. [Annotator's Note: Hecht laughs.] When his ship pulled into...

Mahlen Arledge left Peleliu after the battle for the island was won. His company [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Weiss served in the Navy aboard the USS Columbia (CL-56).] They got word the Japanese fleet was...

The first time Mort Oman experienced enemy fire was in the Philippines when the Japanese fired upon him, and he did not...

On the morning of 3 February 1945, a mortar shell dropped in the rice paddy alongside Theodore Pavlovich and he took...

Vernon Grimes wanted to protect his rank, so he joined the Reserves after the war and was called up for the Korean War...

John E. Johnson went aboard the USS Liddle (ADP-60) in New York in September 1944, and sailed through the Panama Canal...

Jack D. Samuelson continued at Occidental [Annotator’s Note: he was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles,...

The missions Theodore Theodore flew to Balikpapan, Borneo were "prime" experiences of the year he spent in the Pacific...

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