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Nevin Sledge wanted to be a Marine pilot, but he had to go through Navy aviation school. He went to the Navy and was...

Earl Williams was shipped out to New Guinea [Annotator's Note: with the 318th Port Company, 512th Port Battalion]. They...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Werner fought on Leyte Island, Philippines from October 1944 until April 1945]. In that time,...

Most of the time, they got along with the Filipinos. Stinson notes that any foreigner who comes in and occupies another...

There were a lot of good guys in Frank Stewart's unit with the exception of some of the officers. On Guadalcanal,...

Harold Ronson went to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to...

Stanley Richard Williams was born in May 1926 in Wheeling, West Virginia. He grew up on Wheeling Island with his...

Paris Tognoli wonders how he made it. He pondered that many times in his life. He got to go home. When he landed in the...

Roger Shaw was changed by World War 2. The war changed the world. Shaw had never been on a boat before, and that was a...

William Stewart is 88 years old. He was born in April 1929 in Glendale, California. He has one brother. His father...

Frank Pantuso's most memorable experience from World War 2 is the realization of the "reality of war; of knowing that...

Frank Pomroy arrived on Guadalcanal from New Caledonia after being left aboard the troopship George F. Elliot [...

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