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Paul Hilliard believes the SBD Dauntless is much underrated and unfortunately much unrecognized. WWII books sometimes...

On one patrol, Melvin C. Whitman shot a big rat off a fence. The shot scared a hiding Japanese soldier and one of...

Fiske Hanley II [Annotator's Note: with the 504th Bombardment Group, 313th Bombardment Wing, 20th Air Force] was...

Ray Dennis Irby was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] for two years [Annotator's Note: during the Korean...

As soon Philip Mayer got off the boat [Annotator's Note: in Melbourne, Australia], he was ordered to help extinguish a...

Paul Sartori Jr. was a boatsman’s mate second class. He did maintenance work and was a gunner. They were on the ship...

Edward Bale spent the first night on Tarawa sleeping next to a disabled LVT [Annotator's Note: Landing Vehicle, Tracked...

Jimmie Dyer and the 6th Marine Division was sent to replace the Army's 27th Infantry Division in the south of Okinawa....

Walter Bowsher felt the commander of the prison camp at Wusong was the worst person he met. He was named Ishihara [...

After Marine Corps boot camp, Arthur McHardy was sent to Seattle, Washington to a Navy yard as an MP [Annotator's Note...

Mason Brownell Fitch determined that radar was very important when flying missions into Japan. The terrain was much...

Karen K. Lewis never suffered from post-traumatic stress after her experiences in an internment camp. She was never...

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