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Henry Ratcliff was born in January 1923 in Columbia, Louisiana. He had five brothers. He grew up in the area of...

Adolph Wilson arrived in San Diego for Marine training after three days of travel on a train from New Orleans. The men...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Howard Robert Charles was part of the prisoner of war force that worked 14 months on building the Burma Railroad from...

Claude Clifton Cuniff, Junior was assigned to the USS General G.O. Squier (AP-130) out of San Francisco [Annotator's...

After his discharge from the Navy, Raymond “Ray” Parrotta received the 52-20 club benefits [Annotator's Note: a...

They [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were put ashore on New...

Howard Hart has been told repeatedly that the onset of war in the Philippines was a terrible surprise to the American...

Clayton Hall was at Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California...

The next bad thing to happen was when Childers tried to fire at a Zero [Annotator's Note: Japanese fighter aircraft],...

Vaughn Whitworth remembers celebrating V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945]. He felt that...

Paul Lawrence was at the Harvard [Annotator's Note: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts] commencement speech...

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