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Sumner Whitten received orders to return to Ewa [Annotator's Note: following the Battle of Midway]. He got aboard a B-...

Richard Witaker had a memorable experience after the campaign for Okinawa was over and the island was declared secured...

Earl Conklin joined the 1st Marine Division [Annotator's Note: as a rifle platoon leader in Company A, 1st Battalion,...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the US Marine Corps] served in World War 2. He was on active duty in...

Chuck recalls being stripped naked with his hands locked behind his head. The Japanese would hit them with a giant...

Robert Powers enjoyed World War 2 more than the Korean War. He had a reason to go in the first war and he enjoyed the...

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

On 19 February [Annotator' Note: 19 February 1945], Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior [Annotator's Note: with the...

The day after this last action there was hardly anyone left in Jack Houston's company [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd...

Learning of the Japanese surrender was a relief for Don Daniels. He was on a ship off Honolulu [Annotator's Note:...

Robert Lowe was born in Hutton, Louisiana in July 1922. He worked his way through high school during the Great...

Leon J. Neiman was at a pool room when he heard the bomb had been dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

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