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Mitchell Zimmer and his boat [Annotator's Note: USS Piper (SS-409)] returned to Pearl Harbor en route to the Panama...

[Annotator's Note: Lawrence J. Delaune, Sr. served on Luzon, Philippines with the 25th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was assigned to Wake Island as a member of the Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battalion. He had...

Robert E. McGovern's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his father died. He followed the war as a...

Jack Leaming was launched off the deck of the Enterprise on the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December...

Ferrier's airplane was taken back to Pearl Harbor after the battle. The engineers do all sorts of things to the plane,...

Arnold A. Mirsky's father did not want him to join the Army Air Corps, so when he was accepted, Mirsky did not tell his...

It took James Muri 45 minutes or an hour to get to the Japanese fleet from Midway. After he left Midway, he was...

Raymond Bailey was not a Catholic but he went to Father O'Callahan's services [Annotator's Note: Captain Joseph T. O'...

Philip Schweitzer's first time away from home was his trip to basic training. Schweitzer thinks that at the time, the...

William Pierce looked at the invasion of Japan as just another battle. His Marine regiment [Annotator's Note: Pierce...

Nick Cristiano saw his first B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] in New Mexico and it...

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