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The war started and 50 of Charles Wesley Borders' classmates went to Canada to join the RCAF [Annotator's Note: Royal...

John Sanford Gilman was born in Rochester, New York in November 1918. He grew up with an older brother and twin sister...

Charles Womack remembers the terrain on New Guinea being thick jungles with vines growing wildly throughout and near...

John St. Germain was wounded while advancing up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19...

William O’Brien remembers that they ate well on the battleship. They had a small refrigerator. They checked all the...

1 of the men working with Church was hard headed and clearly unhappy with their current predicament. When they were...

[Annotator's Note: Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson served in the Navy in Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 6 (MTBRon 6) and took...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

The USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) sailed among several Pacific Islands, and Elmer Spraker admitted that he was a little...

In the spring of 1946, Hugh Ettinger was stationed at Rongerik Atoll [Annotator’s Note: Rongerik Atoll, Marshall...

Frank Campisano was told he would be in the first wave for the invasion of Japan. He departed for his old camp on...

When James Bollich ran out of food, he started hunting. He was using World War 1 era ammunition. One day while hunting...

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