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The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...

The talk among the men about their home life was very interesting and mostly wholesome, according to Richard McEwen. He...

On 31 December 1945, Monroe Scherer landed in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan; after leaving occupation duty in...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was born in June 1922 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He has three sisters, many nieces and...

Wilbur Rogers laughs at remembering the reward for picking up a downed pilot: ice cream. For each man a ship picked up...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

James Morehead discusses his aerial victory while he was on an escort mission over Romania. He saw two planes that...

Richard F. Penwell was born in February 1923 in Lancaster [Annotator's Note: Lancaster, Pennsylvania]. His father...

Selwyn Gilmore fit back in when he got home. He did not go to work right away. He regrets not going to college when it...

Wallace McKay's most memorable experience of the war was going to Japan. It was memorable because of how docile the...

Arthur Fishman is a World War 2 Navy veteran. He had three sons and several grandchildren, and his wife passed away. He...

Frank M. Heuer Sr. was assigned to the crew of a crash boat and deployed to Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll,...

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