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Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

Richard O'Hara was on Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] when the bomb [Annotator's Note:...

Quintana had to board an Australian ship that left from American Samoa. On Tulagi, the landing was rougher than...

William Cart thinks his most difficult mission was to Maloelap [Annotator’s Note: Maloelap or Maleolap Atoll, Marshall...

Thomas Joseph Lemme was born in January 1926 in Albany [Annotator's Note: Albany, New York]. He had two older brothers...

[Annotator's Note: Anthony Costa begins this segment by discussing his transfer to Japan aboard one of the prisoner of...

Robert Frederick Reed was born in January 1921 on a farm near Rochester, Indiana where he lived for his first 18 years...

Saipan was a bigger island then Tinian so it required a different kind of fight. After Tinian, Michael Mervosh felt...

William Wayne ran into a corpsman who was sitting with a guy who was wounded in the stomach. Wayne told them they could...

Jimmie Dyer went overseas on a ship that was designed as a tanker. It was a sorry piece of machinery. It was a tough...

Aboard ship, the head [Annotator's Note: naval slang for toilet or bathroom] was full. Nobody showed any fear...

For Allen Tillery, returning to civilian life was not much of an adjustment because it happened so fast. He thought for...

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