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Trinidad Ledesma was born in November 1924 in Downey, California. His parents did not speak English. They only spoke...

James Warren David recalled always having the supplies they needed while living on the island [Annotator's Note: on...

Robert M. Solomon was on deck when they got a submarine. He had to hold on, or he would have gone overboard when the...

Robert Prince was born in Seattle, Washington in November 1919. He was the second of four boys. All of them served in...

Paris Tognoli got out of high school and decided not to go to college. He got a job in a slaughterhouse, but he did not...

George Peto served with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World...

Back in Hawaii, Richard Nummer participated in the preparations for the invasion of Japan. One of Nummer's fellow...

[Annotators Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] They went to New...

Roger Shaw returned to the United States by way of Northern Ireland. The SS George Gayle sailed alone before reaching...

Oran Harris did not know the exact nature of his mission on Palawan Island until he reached the prison. A Navy ship in...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker goes by Gene because he liked being greeted that way. He was born in June 1926 in Cushing,...

Myron J. Carraway served in Hawaii until June 1942. He then sailed to the Aleutian Islands based out of Kodiak [...

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