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In August 1942, Bill Norberg knew that the Marines had landed on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon...

Alexander Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group...

On several occasions, Robert Lents and his fellow prisoners outmaneuvered their Japanese captors. [Annotator's Note:...

Alvin Barnes had coincidental meetings with a childhood friend during the war. He had a friend named Paul [Annotator's...

Taken back to the time when the USS Perch (SS-176) was forced to dive and was then depth charged in the shallow waters...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the military and was able to select the Navy as his service branch. He grew up during the...

Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...

When hostilities ended, Irwin Schneider was sent up to the Philippine Islands. It was in the Philippines that he was...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

James Oney was scared when bombs were falling [Annotator's Note: during air raids on Stirling Island, Treasury Islands...

Willard Ashford’s most memorable experience of the was was driving an 18-wheeler to Admiral Nimitz’s [Annotator's Note...

Louis Hutchinson and the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) used Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands] as an...

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