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Paul Fair was one of ten children. He was born in July 1925 in Arkansas. He was the youngest child. He grew up in...

After the Battle of the Tenaru [Annotator's Note: also called the Battle of the Ilu River, 21 August 1942, Guadalcanal...

Mahlen Arledge saw replacements come into his division in Leyte. [Annotator's Note: Arledge was a member Company K, 3rd...

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

At the end of the war, James Thomas Womack was in the process of being transferred off the USS Rehobath (AVP-50) to...

The first move Peter Gallo made with the unit [Annotator's Note: 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division] was to...

In this segment, Joe Clapper reviewed photographs that visually record the history of his platoon [Annotator's Note:...

Walter Jacobs took part in the fighting on Guam, Leyte, Kerama Retto, Ie Shima, and Okinawa. Of those, Okinawa was the...

After two years in the Army, Paul Kerchum was discharged, but re-enlisted for another overseas deployment. His second...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After a couple of...

After David Lamar Mealor contracted a bad case of jungle rot in New Guinea, he was shipped back to the United States on...

Lionel Lopez had an M1 [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand]. He had a...

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