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Henry L Baul was born in December 1922 in Fitzgerald, Georgia. His family moved to Florida when Baul was young. His...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in Evansville, Indiana on the Ohio River...

Greg Woodham found that no one inquired about his time in the Philippines and when he was older, they only desired an...

The torpedo planes flew into Espiritu Santo. They stayed on Espiritu Santo for about a week. They sent 6 TBF's [...

Nevin Sledge wanted to be a Marine pilot, but he had to go through Navy aviation school. He went to the Navy and was...

Walter Jacobs was born in Mississippi. His father worked a variety of jobs. Jacobs grew up on a farm that did not have...

Thomas Kolesa was born in July 1924. He married at 18 and had three children. He is originally from Illinois and moved...

Burton Johnson was transferred from New Guinea to Biak and then to the lower part of the Philippines after it was...

Jack Skaggs was assigned to L Battery on Wilkes Island in the Wake Island atoll. The battery had an old 5 inch 51 gun [...

Most of the time, they got along with the Filipinos. Stinson notes that any foreigner who comes in and occupies another...

James Warren David recalled always having the supplies they needed while living on the island [Annotator's Note: on...

Richard F. Penwell was born in February 1923 in Lancaster [Annotator's Note: Lancaster, Pennsylvania]. His father...

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