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

James Thomas Womack was born in January 1921 in Naples, Texas. He was one of six children. During the Great Depression...

James Smith feels there are parts of World War 2 that can be pretty instructive to the future. He believes that with...

Sergeant Carter [Annotator's Note: UNited States Marine Corps Sergeant James "Rudy" Carter] was a stickler for the...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior could not initially enter Navy flight school because of the number of new potential...

James had his back to the explosion when it occurred. 1 shell that went all the way through the armor and came near the...

Quintana did not talk about the war much when he got home. He did not talk about it with his kids, however with age he...

Edward Riedl was born in November 1920 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] and grew up there. He...

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

John Singlaub was nervous about parachuting into France, but, even so, his team was not ineffectual. Prior to the jump...

Paul J. Frisco's regular watch station aboard the USS Cushing (DD-797) during the first year or so he was aboard was in...

The guys at Midway knew that the Navy was out there but not where they were. Sumner Whitten was at Midway when an SBD [...

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