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Joseph Burrell was born in Toledo, Ohio in February 1922. His family moved to Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit,...

When David Harvey heard that the war had ended, they had 1,500 planes up off the carriers. The British and Russians had...

Raymond Birdsall was born in Lockport, Louisiana. In 1941, he went over to the high school because they did not have a...

In Harold DeForest's platoon there were two squads of machine guns and three squads of mortars. There were about 12 men...

When the crew abandoned the USS Perch (SS-176), Robert Lents said some of the guys in the water turned on their...

Hilar Moore arrived at Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19 February through 26 March 1945] and the Navy...

Claire Maddox went ashore [Annotator's Note: as a member of ACORN-21, after the Battle of Eniwetok, 17 to 23 February...

Jack Leaming arrived in Tokyo after the Japanese surrender and was put aboard a hospital ship. They were stripped naked...

Admiral Kinkaid [Annotato's Note: Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid] who had no experince with carriers or aviators, ordered a...

William Stewart was sent to Camp Beale in California [Annotator’s Note: near Marysville, California]. He got his first...

John McGlohon was born in June 1923 in Guilford County, North Carolina where he lived for the first six months of his...

They [Annotator's Note: Pedro Parra and the rest of the 854th Engineer Aviation Battalion] left Kwajalein [Annotator's...

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