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The Japanese commander of the camp, stood up on a platform and spoke in Japanese with an interpreter, and says, "The...

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

As a 13 year old, David Yoho did not have friends of draft age. He did keep company with older boys and took on a tough...

Paul Hilliard believes the SBD Dauntless is much underrated and unfortunately much unrecognized. WWII books sometimes...

On the way to Peleliu, Joe Clapper's transport pulled into Ulithi, where he saw a small carrier with a hole in it big...

Cleatus Lebow was born in 1924 in Happy, Texas. He grew up as one of 11 children during the Great Depression, but, as a...

Clifford Albert Hahn reached Dutch Harbor [Annotator's Note: Dutch Harbor, Alaska] on 11 May [Annotator's Note: 11 May...

Lyle Bird asked for, and his parents granted, permission for him to enter the Navy at age 17. He attended boot camp in...

A great number of the troops that were mustered were from the South. Warren J. Haslauer believes the Southern people,...

William Currier [Annotator's Note: while serving as a radarman aboard the USS Hall (DD-583)] headed to Iwo Jima [...

After a narrow escape from a deadly Japanese ambush, and a tragic friendly fire casualty that night, William Garbo and...

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