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Wanda Damberg was born of a Dutch father who served as a diplomat in the Philippines starting in 1916. He met Damberg’s...

Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...

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

Richard Witaker had a memorable experience after the campaign for Okinawa was over and the island was declared secured...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

Albert G. Sutcliffe and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division...

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

Alfred Rodrigues reported aboard the Washington [Annotator's Note: USS Washington (BB-56)] as a five inch [Annotator's...

Grant H. Ichikawa was born in April 1919. His father had come to the United States from Japan. People from Japan were...

Burton Johnson arrived in Finschafen, New Guinea in the South Pacific after completing his stateside training. This was...

Returning to the United States, Vaughn Whitworth was offered a promotion to reenlist. He had had enough and went home....

Nevin Sledge remembers that everything was secretive. One of the generals was killed by a sniper. A Marine general took...

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