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Vejtasa had hit the carrier he had made a run on. Fighting 42 was aboard the Yorktown and was commanded by Jimmy...

In the summer of 1945, Robert Jarvis’ unit [Annotator’s Note: 534th Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, 4th Engineer...

Paul Sartori Jr. was in the Philippines when the atomic bombs were dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped...

As commanding officer of fighter squadron VMF-111 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighter Squadron 111 (VMF-111)] in Dallas [...

Louis Andriano was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when the war ended. There were no newspapers aboard...

William C. Ellzey joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in May 1941] and trained as a hospital corpsman in Portsmouth,...

Roger Shaw was 22 years old when he returned to the United States. When he got back to the United States, he went up...

Dale Smith was born in Ontario, California in March 1925. His great grandfather moved there in 1892 and was a founder....

Donald F. Goyette volunteered for Iwo Jima [Annotator's note: Iwo Jima, Japan] because his plane got shot up, and he...

After Ira Schilling and Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment hit the beach at Tarawa, Company L split up and...

When he heard that the war had ended, Robert Dickinson was disappointed that he wasn't going back to combat in the...

Jack D. Samuelson saw his first combat at Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg...

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