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Randall Edwards does not remember how he got "mixed up with the Russians," but he has photos that prove he did. He does...

William Darling was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1925. He always wanted to be in the military. He wanted to go to...

James did not realize that he was shot right away. He knew he was hit but the pain did not register. He went down below...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

Jack Pierce remembers getting to Kwajalein Island [Annotator’s Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] after they had...

Benjamin Hagans remembers they were in the sea and the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese]...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was stationed near the tower for dive submarines [Annotator's Note: in Pearl Harbor,...

Willis Mills returned to the United States aboard a ship and docked at Oakland [Annotator’s Note: Oakland, California...

Richard Baile and other airmen who took part in the nighttime firebombing raid on Tokyo still have reunions. At one the...

Allen Horton had a long leave on Ulithi, where the mail that had been collecting for some time finally reached the...

Russell Gackenbach said that he would be part of the atomic bomb mission again if he was asked to do it. We were at war...

When Delewski resumed firing he had to sit in a different position to fire his gun. The fire had warped the area where...

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