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Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

The Army had not yet finished on Leyte because of bad weather, and Clem Thrift said that in the process of readying to...

Connick's boat [Annotator's Note: an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel)] held roughly thirty-six men. Each boat...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Raymond Hayes and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Tortuga (LSD-26)] went to different places in China, delivering food...

Benjamin Clark Amsden was born in his mother's hometown of Springfield, Ohio in October 1922. He was there for three...

Alvin Barnes heard an interesting story of a man who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings [...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

Harper Gruber found boot camp very rough, but very beneficial in terms of his physical conditioning. After school, his...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Clayton Fisher spent the next two and a half years in the training command. Once, Fisher was chasing fighters and...

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