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Willis Mills was attending Hayward High [Annotator’s Note: Hayward High School in Hayward, California] when he decided...

From California they went to Kwajalein. There, Wendall Woodall tried to talk his radar operator into trying some...

Wanda Damberg experienced the 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack on 8 December [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines is...

Alfred Taddeo was involved in combat over Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Mariana Islands] and Saipan [Annotator's...

Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

Ben Steele knew things were getting tense when he was sent overseas. When he got to Hawaii, he received orders to go to...

There were still natives on Johnston Island [Annotator's Note: Johnston Atoll, United States Minor Outlying Islands]...

Joseph Burrell could see all of the damage from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was still on the ship when the Marines on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]...

Louis John Walter had few of the military benefits as a civilian [Annotator's Note: Walter served in the United States...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew [Annotator's Note: with the 96th Infantry Division] was sent to Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Paul J. Frisco felt comfortable around some of the officers on the USS Cushing (DD-797). With others, he was not as...

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