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When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

Wim de Jonge returned to Holland where found that the government was not willing to pay his three and a half years of...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard the USS LST-781] was a witness to the...

Walter Bowsher felt the commander of the prison camp at Wusong was the worst person he met. He was named Ishihara [...

There was no homecoming reception in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], other than some high...

Edward Riedl felt that if they did not kill, they would be killed themselves. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period...

Robert Lewter was born Lincoln County, Tennessee in October 1927. His father was a sharecropper. Lewter grew up...

Joseph L. Harrison and his unit [Annotator's Note: the 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] went back to...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

Roy Stewart and his unit [Annotator's Note: in the 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division] entered the "amphitheater...

James W. Metcalf was assigned as a turret gunner with the Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the USS Franklin (CV-13). On...

In June 1942, Fred Bergeron was told to pack his sea bags. He and the squadron [Annotator's Note: Bombing Squadron 3 (...

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