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Alvin Barnes had coincidental meetings with a childhood friend during the war. He had a friend named Paul [Annotator's...

When Feightner pulled up at the end of the runway he was hit again. His F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F "Hellcat"...

Adolph William Amundson's mission on Iwo Jima, Japan was to pick up the wounded and fly them back to a hospital on Guam...

James Shelton Scales trained recruits until the middle of 1943, when he received orders to report to Camp Pendleton,...

Armando Galella's duties changed when he became battalion sergeant major, working at headquarters and answering only to...

Albert Simon was at Woodpecker Ridge in Luzon [Annotator’s Note: Luzon, the Philippines]. They landed on Leyte Island [...

Another of the Japanese pushers [Annotators Note: Japanese guards at POW camps in the Philippines] was called Many...

Mahlen Arledge was married on 24 December 1942. He was 18 and his new wife was 16 years old. She was still in high...

James Thomas Jackson was 15 years old and in high school when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

Richard Bennett remembers that it was in the Palau Islands that his vessel had their most memorable encounters with the...

Admiral Kinkaid [Annotato's Note: Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid] who had no experince with carriers or aviators, ordered a...

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