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Arthur Pendleton was happy to get off of Cape Gloucester. They were there during the monsoon season. It was a terribly...

The SS Lurline, on which Virginia Wilterdink was traveling, stopped in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands]...

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

Lloyd Guillory's most notable recollection of the war occurred on the day when he thought he was going to die. His...

John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, known as the Alamo Scouts]...

William Lutz went into a cave on Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg; 1 April...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was born in April 1923 in Visalia, California. During the Great Depression, his father worked for...

While he was stationed at Camp Maui, situated on an extinct volcano, Steve McMurray said some of the units trained on...

Richard Bennett recalled a patrol near Palau when PBYs [Annotator's Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat] picked...

Ralph Marcarelli was aboard an LST [Annotator's Note: landing ship, tank] when he ventured around many islands to...

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

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

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