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When Eugene N. James completed flight training, he was shipped to Sistersville, West Virginia and then on to Cherry...

When they reached the field hospital, Edmund Durocher was put on a stretcher in the mortar platoon area. At the bottom...

The day after the Pearl Harbor attack, J. W. Childs went to the USS Nevada (BB-36) which had managed to get underway...

Alfred Taddeo remembers his first combat action involved strafing and bombing runs against enemy positions on numerous...

The war taught Frank Pryor obedience, discipline, and how to take care of himself. He thought it was advantageous for...

One of the new pilots from Vejtasa's group got lost during the battle. He tried to make it to Guadalcanal but couldn't...

In Hawaii, Don Daniels was at Camp Tarawa. Before getting there, he was loading ships for Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew's first campaign was on Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines]. He had turned 21 while on a...

Walter Groth thought he would not have been there if it was not for the war. He was headed into certain death. He was a...

Bailey has seen the Okinawan civilian jumping off of cliffs on television. It puzzles Bailey how two Okinawan women...

James Richard O'Rorke was born in Washington, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: in September 1922] which is known for...

First, Fiske Hanley said, he prayed [Annotator's Note: after bailing out of his battle damaged Boeing B-29...

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