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William Burkett had gotten there [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines then Japan] two weeks after the war was over. At...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

Ben Kuroki learned that it did not matter that he had flown 30 missions, or that he had a chest full of ribbons. An...

When Donald Hoff's plane went into its dive, it did not last long. At 250 miles per hour the dive goes by quick. When...

Woody Woodall [Annotator's Note: Wendall Woodall] was born in March 1925 in Webster City, Iowa. They were so poor that...

A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

Leon J. Neiman was born on 20 December 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Neiman and his siblings were all born in the same...

Once William Garbo returned to G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment, he resumed command of his machine gun...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn had his first combat kill in a cave on Iwo Jima, Japan in February 1945.] There was a...

Frank Campisano was eager to do his part. He was told he would be put wherever the Marine Corps needed him, which was...

Robert D. Shaner's mom was German and was upset with the Germans after the First World War and her German relatives who...

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