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Virginia Wilterdink was born near the Canadian border in Woodland, Maine in October 1922. She was one of five children...

When his leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] was up, Salvador Guercia returned...

Raymond Bailey was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Jobs at the time only paid about one dollar per day....

Oscar Culp was based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when the war with Japan ended. He remembers the day [Annotator's Note:...

World War 2 made Whayland Harvel Greene appreciate food, water, and shelter. He had no food for five days during his...

During his time in the Samar Islands, the Philippines, William Schrader [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 23rd...

The guys at Midway knew that the Navy was out there but not where they were. Sumner Whitten was at Midway when an SBD [...

Theodore Marolda received orders to board a transport bound for the Solomon Islands after it was discovered the...

Vernon Micheel sailed on a freighter manned by a crew from Ceylon [Annotator's Note: now Sri Lanka, November 1942]. He...

Fred Bergeron saw three carriers as well as battle ships, cruisers and destroyers spread out over a very wide area. The...

Following his liberation [Annotator's Note: from a Japanese prisoner of war camp], Howard Robert Charles arrived by air...

Sterling Cale was sent to Korea near Pusan while the rest of the transferred troops went to Sasebo, Japan. He was with...

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