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

In late 1945, the USS Sagittarius (AKN-2) returned to Norfolk, Virginia and Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the ship in...

Keith Renstrom and Amagony [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling; on Iwo Jima] looked at each other and gave each other...

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....

Donald F. Goyette got to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands], really early in the air war, but as a...

Charles Nathan Lane considers himself extremely fortunate and thinks that he had a guardian angel with him when he was...

Archibald Higgins would do all that he did in the war once again if it was necessary. He thought about staying in the...

Thomas Francis Schicker and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

The Japanese had snipers and other soldiers in the Philippines before the invasion [Annotator's Note: Fall of the...

After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

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