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James McEnery liked having the Dobermans around. McEnery remembers a shipment of dogs being delivered to them at the...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine on the SS Dolly Madison. He doesn't recall the cargo on his first trip...

Walter Broll sailed north of Iceland on his first convoy. The ship zig-zagged over the course of the voyage. He did...

Bloody Ridge had other names but that night it was officially named Bloody Ridge. It was the one spot that the Japanese...

Harold DeForest landed in New Caledonia and was sent to a replacement center. There, he and another guy volunteered to...

Charles Dragich was on a “hell ship” [Annotator’s Note: unmarked Japanese ships used to transport Allied prisoners of...

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

When the Japanese came ashore they had battleships, planes, and superior equipment. Church and his men were using .30...

Edward Bruce Jennings was born in December 1924 in Port Arthur, Texas. At his age, children did not worry about the...

Ernest Cowell had difficulty adjusting to civilian life. There were many servicemen in UCLA [Annotator's Note:...

Abner Aust was at Iwo Jima, Japan when the Japanese formally surrendered. He was the first pilot to go home on 11...

Bailey has seen the Okinawan civilian jumping off of cliffs on television. It puzzles Bailey how two Okinawan women...

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