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Ferrier got to Pearl Harbor the day after the Hornet [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet CV-8, aircraft carrier] sailed. They...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the other internees were very leery of their Japanese captors. They were not all bad...

David Harvey engaged kamikazes at Okinawa, Tokyo, and Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Japan]. The skipper [Annotator's Note...

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson kept moving north until he made it to Vella Lavella [Annotator's Note: Vella Lavella,...

Harold Ronson went to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to...

Vernon Micheel sailed on a freighter manned by a crew from Ceylon [Annotator's Note: now Sri Lanka, November 1942]. He...

Vaughn Whitworth boarded a troop train to Norfolk, Virginia where he loaded onto the USS James O'Hara (APA-90) and...

Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

Robert Hilton Cahoon was born in Chunky, Mississippi in October 1921. Cahoon liked school, but school was only for...

Claude Clifton Cuniff, Junior [Annotator's Note: assigned to the USS President Hayes (APA-20)] was at San Pedro [...

George Alaniz landed on the beach at Attu. [Annotator's Note: Alaniz was a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 32nd...

William Currier was born in Westbrook, Maine in 1926. He grew up with two brothers and was raised by his parents....

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