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Frederick Ellis had seven 40mm guns [Annotator's Note; Bofors 40mm automatic cannon] and 12 20mm guns [Annotator's Note...

Charles Stix left Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] after the atomic bombs [Annotator’s Note: Nuclear...

William Barnes manned a 20 millimeter antiaircraft gun aboard USS PC-590. When an enemy plane came at the ship it...

John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: a member of the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit known as the Alamo Scouts]...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Harold Rosen took part in a simulation that was supposed to help them get ready for their next invasion. He recalls...

Joseph F. McGee Junior's most vivid memory of World War 2 is the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the...

General John Singlaub was born in 1921 in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Range of California. His grandfather...

John "Jack" Raquepau and his group [Annotator's Note :Torpedo Squadron 51 (VT-51), Air Group 51, USS San Jacinto (CVL-...

[Annotator's Note: Clarence Becker went to India as a photo reconnaissance pilot.] India was damp and humid, but very...

Carlos Reed was sent to New Guinea in 1944. He was assigned to the 6th Infantry Division as a replacement. After the...

John Singlaub enlisted in the US Army Artillery because he wanted the experience to supplement his infantry skills....

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