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Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

The next morning Alex Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

Benjamin Clark Amsden [Annotator's Note: an aviation cadet in the United States Navy] went from Pensacola [Annotator's...

George Joseph Sullivan left Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands] for Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian,...

Patrick Zilliacus corresponded with his family. It was censored twice but he corresponded throughout the war with his...

As Ralph Weymouth approached the Japanese fleet, he saw that it was organized in a typical formation for ships at sea....

Olaf Rose was born in August 1921 in Pontiac, Michigan, and was the oldest of four children. His father was in the...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum had good friends with him aboard the USS Leon (APA-48). Saipan was his first invasion [Annotator's...

James Roy Colquitt returned to his home in Alabama after his discharge. He did not have a problem adjusting to civilian...

Martin Sherbecoe served for over eight months [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty in Japan] and earned enough points...

Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great...

Delewski still hears from different people from the Laffey. After the war he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and got...

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