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Throughout summer of 1945, the Belleau Wood [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)] began launching its planes...

Louis R. Lepore did not take part in the practice invasions at Maui [Annotator's Note: Maui, Hawaii] before going to...

Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called...

James Buckley was born in March 1923 in Sharon, Connecticut. He attended school in his house until high school. He went...

Wilbur Rogers was born in August 1925 in Jonesboro, Louisiana, the youngest of six boys and three girls. His wasn't a...

George A. Damiano was born in Riverside, California in 1924. He grew up in a little town called Murrieta, California...

John Wesley Tatum was born in 1919 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He worked in North Carolina at a pole mill in Leland...

Wim de Jonge reached a prison in Singapore where he was guarded by Indian troops who had formerly served in the British...

Looking back on the war, Peter Gallo said World War 2 was a "necessary evil," and he did what he had to do. He believes...

The first treatment Carroll Harris received was heat lamps on his legs. However, his legs and feet began blistering, so...

During his interrogation, Fiske Hanley was asked some military questions, but the Japanese interest centered mostly on...

Archie Kelley landed at Abemama [Annotator's Note: Abemama Atoll, Kiribati]. They were told there were Japanese...

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