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They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

Philip Schweitzer served as a combat medic with the 11th Airborne Division. Schweitzer was born and raised in Brooklyn...

Frank Kern, [Annotator's Note: a corporal in A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division]...

After 13 months in occupied Japan, Clark Wackerman was able to return home. The return home was much worse than the...

When William Lansford was in Iceland, he and the other Marines spent their time building their own Quonset huts and...

Vejtasa thought that the training he received was great. They would train as individuals as well as a group. In...

On Charles Kneflin's 11th or 12th mission, two crews each from Guam, Tinian, and Saipan [Annotator's Note: all in the...

Leo Denault remembers his brother wanted to fly. His brother was always making airplanes. He went to school to be an...

David Heath moved to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] and went aboard the USS President Jackson [...

Angus Francis Mestayer is 95 years old. He was born in 1922 in Loreauville [Annotator's Note: Loreauville, Louisiana]....

After American troops assaulted the Philippines, John Gehrett [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2...

Robert L. Donovan remembers that the Filipinos would take the leftovers from the soldiers after they would liberate an...

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