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Henry James Bird [Annotator's Note: with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] boarded a...

Burton Johnson arrived in Finschafen, New Guinea in the South Pacific after completing his stateside training. This was...

Lloyd Dendy stayed in Australia about two months [Annotator's Note: April to June 1943]. He did a lot of night training...

James Thomas Womack was born in January 1921 in Naples, Texas. He was one of six children. During the Great Depression...

Robert Jarvis’ most memorable experience of World War 2 was seeing his brother in Manila [Annotator’s Note: Manila, the...

In Auckland, New Zealand, Wesley Carroll “got a virus or something,” and ended up in the hospital. He was sent back to...

John "Jack" Raquepau grew up on a farm in Michigan in the Saginaw Valley. The area is noted for navy beans [Annotator's...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman [Annotator's Note: a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot with Marine Scout-Bomber...

When they left the ground they were going a little under 80 miles per hour. The ship was making about 20 knots and...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn had his first combat kill in a cave on Iwo Jima, Japan in February 1945.] There was a...

When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT13,...

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