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Harold C. Cook entered the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

William Burkett left the States in August 1945. He was in an eight-ship convoy. They left from San Francisco [Annotator...

Stanley Fagerstrom still writes for half a day, every day. He had both of his knees replaced, and one of his hips...

Robert M. Solomon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in July 1920. His father was an inspector and they moved to...

Thomas Crosby had bad asthma as a child, so while he was living in the internment camp, he slept in a bed by the window...

On the morning of the 21st they were ordered to go down Tombstone Ridge and head west to the village of Nishibaru....

Charles Watkins Adair [Annotator's Note: with the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Air Force] had a close call at Nichols...

Robert D. Shaner says that the landing at Luzon [Annotator's Note: Battle of Luzon, 9 January to 15 August 1945, Luzon...

Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

James Smith was known as Horse [Annotators Note: also as Horse Collar] during his time in the Marine Corps. He earned...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] and her...

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