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After finishing 31 missions, James "Jim" Marshall laid around, went to the PX [Annotator's Note: post exchange], played...

In 1929, Bill Norberg's father lost his job due to the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression was a...

Harold Ronson experienced one of the most anti-Semitic incidents in his life going into Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note:...

Vernon Micheel attacked a Japanese cruiser on the last day of the battle [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Scouting...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

Crain believes that it is important to have museums such as The World War II Museum [Annotator's Note: The National...

Stanley Fagerstrom was born in June 1923 in Schaffer, North Dakota. He had a sister who was eight years older than him...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

O’Hearn “Duffy” Vincent Dufour hopes that he can be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He did not suffer from post...

Ralph Marcarelli was aboard an LST [Annotator's Note: landing ship, tank] when he ventured around many islands to...

Richard Witaker heard about the war ending in Europe and was grateful. More supplies would be coming to the Pacific. In...

When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...

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