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During the day [Annotator's Note: during Bougainville campaign, part of the Solomon Islands Campaign at Bougainville,...

Stanley Stewart was born in July 1924 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He lived in that model small town, where his father...

Giles Bacon remained at Merritt Island for five months before transferring to Quantico, Virginia. He then transferred...

After boot camp, Richard Nummer returned home for only one day before he returned to San Diego. Some trainees went AWOL...

James Salerno believes that World War 2 made him a better person. It made him feel lucky to be alive. He feels like it...

Richard Higgins occasionally wants to forget what he has seen. Higgins remembers being on Cape Gloucester hiding behind...

William Pierce felt it was his patriotic duty to fight during the Second World War. The Japanese had attacked the...

Mervin Jensen was ready for discharge. They were unloading a ship that had oxygen cylinders on it. They were used for...

During his first night on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...

[Annotator's Note: James Goodrich served in the US Marine Corps as a machine gun section leader in the 27th Marine...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

Henry Quinton Pike was assigned to a gun on the USS Hornet (CV-8) to transport civilians to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

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