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Melvin Munch corresponded with his future wife back home while he was on Okinawa. The letters had to be reviewed by...

It was routine that every morning and every night, Frederick Ellis would go to general quarters. In Leyte Gulf, [...

Louis Andriano was born in Long Island City, Queens, New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in February 1926....

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Everett Hyland what he saw from the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) during the...

Walter Amoss was 17 years of age when the war started. Like his fellow students, he wanted to join the military and go...

[Annotator's Note: Astley Blackwell was a plane captain servicing Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS...

After the Battle of Midway [Annotator's Note: Midway Atoll; 4 to 7 June 1942], Victor Yost was brought back to Pearl...

Stewart Bass participated in the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato on 7 April 1945. Weather conditions were not...

Looking back, Dale Peterson feels honored that he participated in the 2 September 1945 surrender of the Japanese. At...

The invasion at Ormoc Bay was small and consisted mainly of destroyers and rocket firing landing craft.The Laffey [...

Edwin Henlebin described the beachhead as glutted with supplies. The problem was getting the material from the beach to...

Socrates Dendrinelis would always get the worst details. He was in a boxing match with some of the other guys on the...

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