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James Wilson recuperated and was taken to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Guadalcanal...

Fred Gemmel [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 2nd Class assigned to the USS Laffey (DD-724)] headed to the Philippines,...

Still in the Philippines, Clem Thrift's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] moved on to bombarding the...

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

Forrest Villarrubia volunteered for the Marines the day after his high school graduation. His mother would not sign for...

When Theodore Pavlovich was on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands], it was wet and rough. For...

Theodore Robert Tanner thinks himself very fortunate that he never needed to target human beings, and instead dropped...

Schuyler Lininger was sent to the Pacific in August 1945. He was part of the replacement troops coming in for the...

Sam S. McKeel graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism and was offered...

Prior to the battle near Oradour-sur-Glane, John Singlaub experienced a German Heinkel 111 bomber attack. The aircraft...

William Lansford was attached to the 27th Regiment [Annotator's Note: Regimental Headquarters, 27th Marine Regiment,...

James Morehead's first combat action was an intercept of bombers determined to destroy the 19th Bomb Group's [Annotator...

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