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Samuel Malta and the men in combat were just kids who were 18 or 19 years old. The combat troops felt they were...

John "Jack" Raquepau and his group [Annotator's Note: Torpedo Squadron 51 (VT-51), Air Group 51] bombed Clark Field [...

Ben Kuroki was amazed that he only saw one Japanese Zero [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M fighter aircraft, also known...

Once they [Annotators Note: Richard Cole, James Doolittle, and the crewmen aboard their B-25 which had just taken part...

[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...

Merle Jerome "Jerry" Pettis was on the Diligence [Annotator's Note: USS Diligence (WSC-135)] doing target practice with...

James Warren David recalled a time while he was in Pool Boat 12 when a Chaplain and local representative wanted to go...

Bailey had been walking around the ship [Annotator's Note: the ship that was taking him to the invasion of Okinawa]. He...

Louis Zamperini was converted in 1949. In 1951, he returned to Japan, particularly to visit Sugamo Prison because he...

Arles E. Cole missed breakfast and woke a few minutes before eight o’clock in the morning [Annotator’s Note: Cole was a...

Lawrence Brooks followed the war while he was in service. One of the islands he was on had Japanese pillboxes. The...

George Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the shelling of Shuri Castle during the Battle of...

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