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The one other combat action Carl Rieman experienced in the Philippines occurred in the Surigao Strait. The whole fleet...

Robert Masters's ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-601] came under air raids on several occasions while in port in Tunis...

Being a farm boy and being used to hard work, as well as having a disciplinarian uncle who had been in the service,...

Russell Gackenbach served in the Air Force as a navigator on B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very...

Ira Schilling killed a Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal with a shotgun. In the morning, before the Marines moved out...

Jack Skaggs and his comrades were loaded aboard the Nitta Maru for departure from Wake. They left on 12 January 1942....

Roy Stewart went by train to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California after enlisting in the US Marine Corps...

Later on [Annotator's Note: in the war] in the atolls on the way to China, the destroyers would go into the lagoons...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Keller served in the Army as the company commander of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 148th...

William Lansford was attached to the 27th Regiment [Annotator's Note: Regimental Headquarters, 27th Marine Regiment,...

Charles Wesley Borders was strafing a target in New Guinea and got hit. He nursed the airplane back to a temporary base...

Charles "Chuck" Wisher was born in Toledo, Ohio in February 1926. His father was in construction so at five years of...

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