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Wallace McKay caught a merchant ship back to the United States. It took six weeks to make it back and he was only given...

James J. Hill had Pappy Boyington [Annotator's Note: later US Marine Corps Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington] as his...

Samuel Ukrop experienced a lot of intense training for Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed...

James Wilson landed in Wellington, New Zealand [Annotator's Note: on 11 July 1942] and it was cold and raining. They [...

Charles Watkins Adair went into the infantry in the signal corps [Annotator's Note: US Army Signal Corps, after being...

Socrates Dendrinelis was born in St. Louis, Missouri in March 1926. He grew up there with three brothers and one sister...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Werner snuck out of Austria and made his way to the United States, arriving on 8 May 1939.]...

Harold Long married his wife during his time in college while working on his master's in accounting. After the war, he...

Going into the Pacific took 19 days, zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver], in a three-ship...

Marvin Martin’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was being in Japan during occupation. He also remembers when...

After recuperating, Gerald West left for New Georgia. The Raiders landed on New Georgia at one o’clock in the morning...

On 23 February [Annotator's Note: 23 February 1945] they were out [Annotator's Note: of the Los Baños internment camp...

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