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[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Jerome Paul DiFulco landed at Munda in New Georgia [Annotator's Note: New Georgia, Solomon Islands with Company A,...

Abraham Rosenzweig joined the US Coast Guard in October [Annotator’s Note: of 1942] and left in January 1943. His...

David Heath found out he was behind Japanese lines. To evade the 800 soldiers, the Marines walked behind them, up a...

Peter "Pete" Behr's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the landing at Leyte [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

Henry James Bird [Annotator's Note: with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] never saw...

Patrick Zilliacus was born in May 1926 in Helsinki, Finland. Life growing up was fantastic. His parents divorced when...

When general quarters were announced, Francis Borrell had to be in his position as fast as possible. He would sit at...

Carrol Smith landed during the invasion of Angaur Island in the Palau island group [Annotator’s Note: the invasion...

Richard Baile was born in December 1920 on a farm in Missouri east of Kansas City near the town of Washburn. They had a...

The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...

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