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James Warren David remembered that the ship was full of people. The beds stacked nine bunks high. He recalled that he...

Thomas E. Warne and his family were living outside Honolulu [Annotator’s Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] where his father owned...

William Burkett left the States in August 1945. He was in an eight-ship convoy. They left from San Francisco [Annotator...

Sumner Whitten would rent his car out for five dollars per night. Whitten took his graduation leave in New England then...

Henry Baul believes the military offered a bit more racial respect than his civilian life. While in the Marine Corps,...

Cape Gloucester was a rough campaign for Arthur Pendelton. They captured prisoners. Some of the fellas that had lost...

Lionel Lopez remembers that they took a ship to Australia, but ended up in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San...

Schuyler Lininger departed Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] for San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco,...

Everett Hyland had gone back to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the 1960s and 1980s as a tourist. He thinks of Pearl Harbor...

Arthur Fishman's bunk [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Robinson (DD-562)] was near the engine room below deck. He...

Stanley Fagerstrom still writes for half a day, every day. He had both of his knees replaced, and one of his hips...

As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

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