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After David Lamar Mealor contracted a bad case of jungle rot in New Guinea, he was shipped back to the United States on...

Greg Woodham was a small child living in the Philippines prior to World War 2. On 22 December 1941, his mother received...

Life at the Academy [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland] was very good, and Claude...

William J. Twigger saw very little fighting at Sugar Loaf [Annotator's Note: The Battle of Sugar Loaf Hill, 12 May to...

James Muri joined the Army so that he could become a pilot. Growing up in Montana Muri did not see many airplanes. He...

George Peto has kept numerous photographs and documents from and regarding the war and shared them with interviewer....

Lepla took off with the strike group on the morning of the Battle of Santa Cruz [Annotator's Note: 26 October 1942]....

George A. Damiano was born in Riverside, California in 1924. He grew up in a little town called Murrieta, California...

The first chance William Lansford and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion had [Annotator's Note: to fight the Japanese] was...

Carey Suratt was born in July 1926 in Dennison, Ohio. His father worked for the Pennsylvania railroad as a fireman. His...

James Stewart Rosenbaum was born in Chicago, Illinois in August 1925. His father was an insurance and hat salesman. He...

Michael Maziarczyk remembers the Navy starting the bombardment at four in the morning. They made a hospital on the...

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