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Harry Walker Wellford was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 6 August 1924. He spent his entire life there except for his...

David McKinley Blackwell entered the Army at Camp Polk [Annotator's Note: now Fort Polk in Vernon Parish, Louisiana]....

Keith Renstrom discusses what it was like to train soldiers. One time, he witnessed a soldier giving bayonet...

Malcolm Ernest was with about 100 American prisoners in Manchuria [Annotator's Note: Hoten Camp, Mukden, Manchuria;...

Salvador Perino liked his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91)]. The ship's force learned to...

Alex Vraciu lost his wing man, Brockmeyer [Annotators Note: US Navy Ensign Homer Brockmeyer] out over the Japanese...

Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] had his first combat...

Kenneth Killilea feels strongly that it is important to continue to study World War 2. It is essential that young...

Norman Hatch does not think of his experiences on Tarawa or Iwo Jima continuously. Rather, his experiences flood back...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Baile served in the USAAF and as a flight engineer on B-29 bombers.] Finally, they got their...

The 24th [Annotator's Note: 24 December 1941] was the same; no water and no food. They could barely talk. On the...

Norman Sterrie finished flight training in the summer of 1940 [Annotator's Note: Sterrie had entered the Navy in...

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