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The strike groups began hitting Guam and Saipan on the 12th [Annotator's Note: 12 June 1944] in preparation for the...

Charles Chartier was born in Applegate, Michigan in February 1927. He had one brother and one sister. He was the...

Benjamin Albert Glusing was born in February 1916. He was born in southeastern Kansas on a farm near the town of...

Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

Floyd Annas was called back to active duty for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to 1953] but did not...

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

Allen Horton reported aboard the USS Nevada (BB-36), and a fellow Princeton acquaintance helped him settle into...

Still just a "number," Carl Rieman wound up at the Marine Corps Air Station in Opelika, Florida, the only ensign among...

Armando Galella's duties changed when he became battalion sergeant major, working at headquarters and answering only to...

Mort Oman was not aware that a large battle had jut taken place when he arrived in Buna, New Guinea in June 1944. He...

Dupuy was rotated out after his escort missions on Truk. There was no system of rotation for pilots in the Pacific like...

Claude Shannahan's worst memories from Guadalcanal were largely from Bloody Ridge. With the Japanese approaching from...

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