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Claude Bufford Shaw was in the Navy from July 1938 until his discharge in 1972, when he retired at the rank of Captain...

When Richard Higgins returned to the United States he went to Quantico to drive a truck. He would drive civilians to...

Michael Maziarczyk remembers the Navy starting the bombardment at four in the morning. They made a hospital on the...

The 71st Fighter Squadron [Annotator's Note: 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force] usually guarded...

Richard Greer left Guadalcanal on 5 or 6 January 1943 and went to Melbourne. He was very happy to be leaving the island...

Robert Lowe was born in Hutton, Louisiana in July 1922. He worked his way through high school during the Great...

Lloyd Dendy met people from different parts of the country. They had different accents and different ways of doing...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was assigned to the USS Guam (CB-2) as a fireman in June 1944. His crew got along well together...

Gerry Jones was painting radio towers in California when he heard the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

Lawrence Wulf enlisted in the US Army Air Force. He was sent to Victory Field in Vernon, Texas. His instructor was...

Oran Harris said the Americans went first by sea in pursuit of the Japanese that had retreated into the mountains of...

Thomas Kolesa was told to clean up his area and get everything ship shape. General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General...

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