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John DuBose signed on the SS Frenchtown as a messman. The ship was a T-2 tanker that was welded during construction and...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin was a tail gunner on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber in the 53rd...

After Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] was secured [Annotator's Note: on 14 January 1945], John H. Cole...

After graduating from Officer Cadet School [Annotator's Note: at Fort Benning, Georgia], Clark Wackerman was sent to...

James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

When John Kelley and his unit [Annotator's Note: Battery D, 457th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne...

Adolfo V. Celaya sailed to Tinian [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) delivering key components of...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. During his overseas...

Alexander Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi...

As they moved into Germany, Chris Carawan remembered one battle when a man was shot and fell across the top of his...

Mervin Jensen wanted to get back home to civilian life. He was running up the ladder and he was pulling himself along...

When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

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