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When Crain got a chance to examine his boat he noticed there were about 50 to 75 marks in the steel where bullets had...

After the island of Saipan was secured, Ira Schilling and his assault engineer squad of 2nd Marine Division remained on...

James Goodrich thinks that people had a greater hatred for the Japanese than the Germans in America. He credits hearing...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

Starnes has thought about the night the USS Boise ambushed the Tokyo Express many times. He had a sense of apprehension...

James Gaffney got into trouble in Cartagena [Annotator’s Note: Cartagena, Colombia]. Some of the crew was driven in a...

Walter Alan Bowsher, Jr. was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His father was in the Army chasing Poncho Villa at the time....

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

[Annotator's Note: Pedro Parra was assigned to the 854th Engineer Aviation Battalion in February 1943.] They did not...

Remi Kidder served on the Wasp [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-18)] as it performed its job of softening up islands...

When Claire Maddox went into the service [Annotator's Note: in the summer of 1943], he had the option to pick any of...

Ben Ray Bost had a new captain come aboard [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316] after Captain Fritsch [Annotator's Note...

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