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On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

[Annotator's Note: Richard R. Ruess served as a navigator in the 1st Mapping Group.] He received orders [Annotator's...

Gerald Wayne Lux joined the service to give the Japanese what they had coming to them after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Benjamin Albert Glusing's men [Annotator's Note: in the 208th Military Police Company] saved themselves, other men,...

James Buckley was assigned to the USS LST-1013, a Landing Ship, Tank. It was as long as football field and 50 feet wide...

Wilbur Rogers moved easily from civilian to military life because his pre-enlistment days were more strenuous than that...

Arthur McHardy went by train from Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit, Michigan] to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Keller served in the Army as the company commander of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 148th...

William Pierce went to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina following his tour in Hingham, Massachusetts. Because he had been...

When the atomic bombs were dropped, Fiske Hanley and his fellow prisoners were totally unaware of the events, but...

Donald Campbell was born in 1923 in Cedar Lake, Mississippi, the son of a sawmill worker. He grew up during the Great...

Gerry Jones and his scout partner, Mack [Annotator's Note: unable to verify identity], were out on a patrol mission on...

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