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Henry Ratcliff sailed into Oro Bay in New Guinea [Annotator's Note: as a member of the 860th Aviation Engineer...

Paul J. Frisco was born in May 1925 in Newark, New Jersey. He lived there until he was 15 years old and then moved to...

Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After a couple of...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] arrived in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Life aboard ship was just something Charles Bishop and his fellow sailors adjusted to. They worked four hours on and...

Cleatus Lebow believes that, although the contents of the crate they carried to was top secret, speculation among the...

Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

[Annotator's Note: James Billingsley went ashore on Luzon, Philippines, on 31 January 1945.] Billingsley made his way...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm [Annotator’s Note: a navigational equipment technician assigned to the 415th AACS (Army...

William Darling was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1925. He always wanted to be in the military. He wanted to go to...

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in...

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