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When Arthur Pendleton was on the ridge he recalled a shell from a Japanese naval gun landing in front of them. The...

Clarence Robert Duff recalled picking up survivors from the USS Franklin (CV-13) during the kamikaze attacks off...

At the end of 1943, the Japanese made Bruno S. Rinas and his comrades build an airport outside of Manila [Annotator's...

Deen was supposed to follow Bill Thompson [Annotators Note: during the invasion of Peleliu, 15 September 1944]. He was...

William O’Brien remembers that they ate well on the battleship. They had a small refrigerator. They checked all the...

Robert Hammond didn't like the military's practice of segregation. At the time he first encountered prejudice in South...

In the spring of 1946, Hugh Ettinger was stationed at Rongerik Atoll [Annotator’s Note: Rongerik Atoll, Marshall...

[Annotator's Note: George Peto served in the US Marine Corps in a machine gun section in 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine...

John Geiger was born in Newark, New Jersey in April 1923. He had two sisters. His father was a contractor for trucking...

On the battleship, J. W. Childs said, it was mandatory for a sailor to wear his white hat if he went outside of his...

Tenney didn't feel that three rations of rice a day, at about four and a half ounces a ration, was good. He felt it was...

Lloyd Guillory and the other new pilots were told that they would initially train in P-40s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P...

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