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Andrew Leblanc was shipped to the Philippines. He lived in a pup tent [Annotator's Note: also called a shelter-half,...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

Richard Witaker recognizes the valuable role played by the American home front in winning the war. Without the...

Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

Clem Thrift said the United States was suffering under the threat of German submarine attacks, so the destroyer escorts...

William Lutz remembers they took a bulldozer and pushed the ground over the caves [Annotator’s Note: He is referring to...

William Hall heard a Japanese bomber fly a scouting mission over Midway Island. The squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine...

Thomas Crosby had bad asthma as a child, so while he was living in the internment camp, he slept in a bed by the window...

Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

[Annotator's Note: Horace Trahan serevd in the Navy aboard the USS Briscoe (APA 65) in the Pacific.] They stopped in...

James Oney and his outfit [Annotator's Note: ACORN 12; Aviation, Construction, Ordnance, Repair 12] loaded all of their...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

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