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Victor K. Carman remembers the typhoon. It was significant. The Philippines got hit by a typhoon with winds of 190...

Gerry Jones recalls when they [Annotator's Note: the 1st Marine Division] went to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu,...

The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...

John Nicholas went into the service in September 1943. His half brother George was already in the Navy. Nicholas went...

Wilbur Rogers moved easily from civilian to military life because his pre-enlistment days were more strenuous than that...

Stanley John Niec was born in May 1926 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] and was raised there. He was...

Walter Bowsher was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: after his liberation from a prisoner of war camp in Japan] where he...

Richard H. Kerr's most memorable experience is when a kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Bailey served in the Navy as an aircraft mechanic aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13). He...

Edgar Harrell was assigned to the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) [Annotator's Note: sometimes referred to as "Indy"] serving...

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