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One of the worst times Philip Schweitzer experienced was the month that he spent on the plateau on New Guinea. Another...

Robert Templet served on the USS Roxanne (AKA-37) after serving on Maui. The Roxanne would bring supplies to the troops...

Kenneth Killilea was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up there for the most part. He also lived in Wellesley,...

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior was born in February 1925 in Brewton, Alabama. He had a brother and sister....

Alexander Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson served in the US Marine Corps as an automatic rifleman in Company I, 3rd Battalion,...

In early April [Annotator's Note: April 1943], second lieutenants were asked to volunteer for duty in the Pacific....

Yellin had to fly the next day after he bailed out in the ocean. He notes that the P-40 was a great airplane. There was...

Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines. He stayed on the beach with equipment. On the second day,...

When Richard Thelen returned home, he served at the Grosse Ile Naval Air Station outside of Detroit [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn and the 3rd Marine Division went ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan on 23 February 1945 and...

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