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James W. Metcalf was born in Toledo, Ohio in September 1924. When he was still an infant, Metcalf’s father moved the...

James Shelton Scales did not think about his family much, except that he missed his wife and daughter. His wife wrote...

Harold “Hal” Leith [Annotator’s Note: as a member of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), the forerunner of the...

Edgar Harrell had very little energy and was just hoping for someone to discover him [Annotator's Note: while floating...

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

When alerts came in for kamikaze attacks, Carroll George had to be in the engineering room [Annotator's Note: aboard...

Philip Mayer was born in June 1925 in Hollister, California where his family had a ranch. In 1930, his family moved to...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior arrived after the field [Annotator's Note: Yontan Airfield (Japanese name Kita Airfield...

One morning, Richard Thelen saw a plane fly over him and he knew that he was about to be rescued [Annotator's Note: USS...

Jacques Brewster Smith and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard USS LST-781] moved around the South...

In October 1944, Jack H. Bleuler was assigned to a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber]...

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