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There has not been three and a half years of William J. Twigger's life that have had such a profound effect on him as...

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

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Pendleton served in the US Marine Corps as a machine gunner in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st...

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

Frank Pryor was well supplied on Iwo Jima. The SeaBees [Annotator's Note: members of US naval construction battalions]...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

Morris Semiatin volunteered for the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in 1944]. His brother was serving in the Army in...

While on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1 April to 22 June 1945; Okinawa, Japan], Kenneth...

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

Carrol Smith landed during the invasion of Angaur Island in the Palau island group [Annotator’s Note: the invasion...

Walter Bowsher worked on an effort called the Mount Fuji Project which was supposedly building a children's playground...

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