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Five soldiers rigging P-39 airplane lifted by wrecker for towing during retrieval operation in the Aleutian Islands c....

"File Number: 243454 September 19, 1944. Reveille at dawn-- Sprawled out below the wings of Navy planes, Marines en...

Lieutenant General Keller Emrick Rockey, commander of the Fifth Marine Division, in the battle of Iwo Jima, speaking on...

"Atrocity: Godefredo Rivera was only one of group of 10 civilians to survive machine gunning by Japs." 2 March 1945

545.Photograph 'CinCPac-POA AH65 February 21, 1945 Marines take shelter on Iwo Jima With the battle raging close by,...

Roy Boreen spent a year and a half as part of the USS Oklahoma's (BB-37) 3rd Division Deck Force. Every Friday was...

Marvin Hill went to the Parcel Post building in Richmond to enlist, and underwent a physical. He was rejected, and told...

Besides the attack from the Japanese scout, Carroll Harris did not have any other combat experiences with the Japanese...

At war's end, Gerry Jones was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] preparing to invade mainland Japan. They...

Richard Lafleur was born in December 1926 in Bemidji, Minnesota. He was there until he was about 15, when his parents...

William Lutz knew the enemy was in front of them. [Annotator’s Note: He is referring to the Japanese on Guam]. He did...

Fulton "Jack" Taylor was born in 1925 in Corbin, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: cannot verify town name]. The family...

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