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On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], John Edward...

Martin Banyas and his gunners did a good job as the last line of defense for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Santa Fe (...

Gerald Wayne Lux served in the United States Navy in the Pacific and made it to Australia and Japan. He volunteered for...

Bruno S. Rinas believes that had the Americans been given better training and equipment, they would have held out...

Windom Joseph Burton was born in Brittany, Louisiana in February 1921 . He had six brothers and two sisters. His father...

James Gaffney never spotted any Japanese while patrolling Bougainville. They did observe and report a bright light on...

That night, Carroll Harris experienced a Japanese surprise attack. Guards were put in place where Sergeant Allan was...

Jacques Brewster Smith [Annotator's Note: with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division] boarded a...

Arthur Pendleton went to Pavuvu after Cape Gloucester. There, he dealt with a bout of appendicitis which almost killed...

The Battle of the Philippine Sea was the end of Jack Glass' combat tour. They finished up the Marianas operation then...

Robert Rosendahl got out of Camp O'Donnell and went on a detail north of a town called Cabanatuan where he was put to...

The fact that John McGlohon is one of the living eye witnesses to the first atomic explosion, and that he was on site...

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