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Pearson Riddle was sent to second camp that had high walls and an electric fence in 1943. He was then put on a ship to...

Clifford Albert Hahn entered basic training at Fort Lee, Virginia [Annotator's Note: he had enlisted in July 1942]....

While serving aboard the USS Hall (DD-583) in the Marshall Islands, William Currier helped search for a downed Marine...

[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a radioman and rifleman in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] The...

Jack Skaggs was assigned to L Battery on Wilkes Island in the Wake Island atoll. The battery had an old 5 inch 51 gun [...

Keith Renstrom and Amagony [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling; on Iwo Jima] looked at each other and gave each other...

Embarking on their journey to the Pacific, Richard Bennett's squadron [Annotator's Note: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 31...

Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

During World War 1, Archibald Rackerby's mother worked for the Navy as a clerk. Her father worked for the Government...

Claude Bufford Shaw spent his entire wartime service in the Pacific, except for two short trips to the United States to...

On his first day at sea, Robert Powers got seasick. One of his friends, Ned Meloney, played for the 49ers [Annotator's...

During the days following their [Annotator's Note: Harlan Twible and the other survivors of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35...

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