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After boot camp, Richard Nummer returned home for only one day before he returned to San Diego. Some trainees went AWOL...

Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....

Fred Bergeron was 19 years old when he took part in the Battle of Midway. He did not really have any idea just how...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. and his crew [Annotator's Note: flying a Consolidated B-24 Liberator with the 43rd Bombardment...

David Lansou [Assigned to the 5th Joint Assault Signal Battalion, 5th Marine Division] made an invasion on Iwo Jima [...

Adolph Wilson fought through some of the worse jungles on Bougainville. It had everything imaginable. It rained every...

Thomas Edward Pugh was born in June 1924 in Dallas, Texas, but grew up in Denton [Annotator's Note: Denton, Texas]. His...

Thomas Joseph Lemme remained in recovery in the hospital until the end of the war [Annotator's Note: he had been...

[Annotator's Note: Ralph Weymouth served in the Navy as a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 3 (VS-3) flying from...

Lionel Lopez was born in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in August 1921. He went to Catholic...

Albert Yamamoto's [Annotator's Note: an American citizen who was in Japan during the war] most memorable experience of...

Murphy Burke served in World War 2 because he thought it was the thing an American should do. He feels his experience...

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