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During the second Truk raid Alexander Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group...

Lenwood Steglich joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: enlisting in September 1942] because all his friends were going...

Paul Ignatius’ most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting through it, surviving and coming out to lead a...

Robert D. Shaner's most memorable experience of World War 2 was reporting aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-...

Paul J. Frisco and his fellow crewmen were not intimidated by the threat of kamikazes because of their supreme...

Mark Maynard [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] sailed from Pearl Harbor to Midway to top off fuel...

James Connelly got burned. They ran short of gasoline for flamethrowers. A small boat came back to get more. The LCM [...

Joseph Townsend was born in April 1926 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He grew up in Shreveport. He had two brothers and two...

Black hoods were placed on the heads of William Leibold and the others [Annotator's Note: the other survivors of the...

Donald Hoff's plane was not bothered [Annotator's Note: by Japanese fighters during the second strike of the Battle of...

Carl Trim did not find it hard to adjust to civilian life. He attended college, while his wife worked. In 1948, Trim...

Edward O. Wood, Senior was assigned to the Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]...

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