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Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

James Gulotta landed in the Philippines on Leyte on the Ormoc Peninsula. This is where he did most of his fighting....

Walter Nelson used to fly out into the fog near the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Sometimes he flew underneath the Bay...

John Elliott and his crew knew nothing about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima...

Drafted into the Army in 1943, Peter Paret was thrown in with unfamiliar types, and became a fairly solitary man. His...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs partially understood what Operation Crossroads [Annotator's Note: a pair of nuclear weapons tests...

George Joseph Sullivan spent six months in a hospital at home after he got back. The diet was one of the bad things. He...

Moving off the beach at Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...

Walter Jacobs thought the BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle] was a good weapon but required a lot of...

Loren Bennett stayed out at sea for about two or three months after the war was over. He was ready to get out of the...

Abraham Rosenzweig returned home [Annotator’s Note: to Chicago, Illinois from Los Angeles, California where he had...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

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