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Wim de Jonge accompanied an officer to Jakarta. They traveled alone in a jeep through the mountains without convoy...

Ben Steele had not eaten in three days when he was captured. He was captured after walking out in front of an enemy...

Frank Pryor was well supplied on Iwo Jima. The SeaBees [Annotator's Note: members of US naval construction battalions]...

Wilbur Rogers moved easily from civilian to military life because his pre-enlistment days were more strenuous than that...

Earl Angel returned to the United States in November 1945. His infant daughter had trouble sleeping at night until the...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior headed out to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Battle of Saipan, 15 June to 9 July 1944, Saipan,...

After Norman Elliott was discharged from the Navy, he did not go back to school. He joined the 52-20 club [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner in a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber in...

When alerts came in for kamikaze attacks, Carroll George had to be in the engineering room [Annotator's Note: aboard...

Marvin Hill can recall many anecdotes from his military career, ranging from boot camp to discharge. He had no...

Claire Maddox returned to Hawaii [Annotator's Note: as a member of ACORN-21, Aviation, Construction, Ordnance, Repair]...

Shortly after the attack on the ammunition ship at Darwin, Australia, Richard Micklich [Annotator’s Note: serving as a...

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