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Barbara Butler was born in Syracuse, New York in 1921. Her father was a salesman so they moved around a lot when she...

Charles Wesley Borders and his fellow pilots all started at about the same time. They had three flights of 11 pilots,...

George Joseph Sullivan moved from Mbanika [Annotator's Note: Mbanika Island, Solomon Islands] on an APC [Annotator's...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

After basic training, James Franklin Young was sent to New River, North Carolina and placed in the Fleet Marine Force....

Everett Hyland was on the radio gang on the Memphis [Annotator's Note: USS Memphis (CL-13)]. They picked up 200...

Sometimes when the PT boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat] that Olaf Rose served on [Annotator's Note: PT-171,...

From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

Since Alfred Dearman would be in the cellblock with the prisoners [Annotator's Note: at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan],...

They had to go through roll call everyday at the camp. They were all assigned different Japanese numbers. In the...

Lawrence Wulf [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 19th Bombardment Squadron, 22nd Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force] liked...

From Leyte, the 7th Infantry Division went to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], and Peter Gallo described...

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