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15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

While Vernon Henry Moret was on a ship headed to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] with his unit [Annotator's...

William S. “Bill” Beamish [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 77th Bombardment Squadron] was stationed on Attu [...

Frank Savage was surprised to be relieving the 31st Infantry Division on Mindanao. That division was hit hard in the...

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

When he returned to the United States, William Goldsborough was mustered out of Fort Meade [Annotator's Note: Fort...

James Newsom joined the United States Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was put on a train in New Orleans,...

Ben Kuroki was amazed that he only saw one Japanese Zero [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M fighter aircraft, also known...

As commanding officer of fighter squadron VMF-111 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighter Squadron 111 (VMF-111)] in Dallas [...

Lynward Joseph "Buddy" or "Bud" Adams joined the Navy with his two friends, and they were sent to San Diego [Annotator'...

Charles Gubish did not know much about what was going on with the war in the Pacific. Marine Corps boot camp was tough...

Making her way alone, Virginia Wilterdink arrived at Camp Devens in Massachusetts to begin her military career. She met...

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