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Adolph Wilson was in college when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At 18 years old, he was playing football and running...

Richard Nummer entered service in November 1943 at 17 years old. He went to San Diego for boot camp. That was his first...

The men were lined up waiting to be searched. A friend, Joe Perry, who later made full Commander devised a plan to get...

As they neared Iwo Jima, James Salerno and the others were told that it would not take more than a week to take the...

Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

On December 7th [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1941], Robert Erskine Hendricks [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th...

George Colburn called for a stretcher. One of the ones who brought the stretcher got hit. They put his friend,...

[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a radioman and rifleman in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] They...

Calvin Moore went to one place where a guy hit him with an axe. They were cutting black mahogany trees. He does not...

Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

James Wilson's World War 2 record starts in the summer of 1941. He and his oldest brother out of seven children were in...

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