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Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...

Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

Thomas Joseph Lemme teamed up with a fellow named John Prentice Brown [Annotator's Note: Lemme was drafted into the...

In November 1945, Anna McCalla Noren boarded a transport plane and flew from Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern...

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

In the early summer of 1945, Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker]...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. was assigned to the USS Tippecanoe (AO-21) tanker. Most individuals were wary of serving on...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn and the 3rd Marine Division went ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan on 23 February 1945 and...

When Charles Weskey Borders got to New Guinea it had not been secured. The worst time was when he was based at Noemfoor...

Sam L. Miller was discharged from the Navy as a Yeoman 3rd Class [Annotator's Note: at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard...

When James Bollich ran out of food, he started hunting. He was using World War 1 era ammunition. One day while hunting...

Thomas Crosby had bad asthma as a child, so while he was living in the internment camp, he slept in a bed by the window...

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