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James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

They [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] called the officer over and told him that the war was over. About a half hour...

Harry Walker Wellford was assigned to the Harrison [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)] as a radar officer. He met...

For Kenneth Dwight Wells, the most difficult part of fighting against the Japanese on Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Samuel Ukrop was flown to an Army hospital on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands]. He was the only Marine in...

Fermer Kellogg was born in April 1925. He was born, raised and resides in Burbank, California. His family made...

Paul Takeo Bannai was born in July 1920 in Delta, Colorado, to Japanese parents. His grandfather got into the coal...

Robert Savage was assigned as the radio man on the USS Springfield (CL-66), which received orders to escort a heavy...

When Allen Tillery got there [Annotator's Note: to Pearl Harbor after the Battle of Eniwetok in Febraury 1944] he was...

Robert G. Aldous and his crew flew many missions to Formosa [Annotator's Note: Republic of Formosa; present day Taiwan...

Lloyd Dendy and another man were on the side of a bomb crater and got blown out of their foxhole. They both vibrated...

Phineas Stevens was born in Jackson, Mississippi in December 1917. He grew up during the Great Depression. He attended...

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