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Charles “Chuck” Wisher was based on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: as a crewman on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy...

During the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...

After joining the Marine reserves following World War 2, John Edward Campbell found work for a pharmaceutical company...

Edward Bale heard of a Japanese soldier throwing a magnetic mine on a tank inland of Red 3 beach. He did not learn the...

Ray Anthony returned to Cleveland after the war. He began to organize his own band recruiting former Navy bandmembers...

Church recently made a trip back to Guam and laid a wreath down at the monument for the soldiers killed there during...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen served in the Navy as a gunner aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413).] From there...

Milton Fernandez thinks his most memorable moment of the war was to serve in the Army and protect the country from the...

Willis Mills went into Manila [Annotator’s Note: Manila, the Philippines] for a few days and observed the destruction...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe was there [Annotator's Note: on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu] for two or three months before...

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