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Wim de Jonge was a member of a Dutch artillery battery liaising with an American artillery unit under Captain Thomas...

Richard Higgins often wonders why he walked away when so many of his friends did not. Higgins knew that Captain Haldane...

The locals in the Philippines loved Paul Sparacino and the other sailors [Annotator's Note: who served aboard the USS...

William Roy [Annotator's Note: as a member of the salvage crew on the USS Yorktown (CV-5) on 6 June 1942] witnessed the...

Arles E. Cole was sent to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] for naval aptitude testing and training....

When he was discharged from Company C, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Floyd Fogg said he "had it good… but...

Jacques Brewster Smith remembers the island of Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] being all jungle and...

Victor K. Carman got to Japan on 1 August 1945. The bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

William Barnes was aboard USS PC-590 when it was thrown onto the reef which surrounds Midway atoll. After making...

Jack H. Bleuler served with the 822nd Bombardment Squadron, 38th Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force during the war in the...

Norman Kleiss could not see if the bombs from the next two planes hit. When he made his run, he lined up on the big red...

Jack Yusen still frequently thinks about the men who died [Annotator's Note: when his ship, the USS Samuel B. Roberts (...

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