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Edward Riedl shipped out around April 1944. They stopped on Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall...

Arthur Jackson was in the hospital in Noumea, New Caledonia for three or four weeks before being shipped back to the...

Mort Oman [Annotator’s Note: was assigned to Headquarters Battery, 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire control...

Mark Maynard [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] sailed from Pearl Harbor to Midway to top off fuel...

Sam S. McKeel served in the Navy as a fire director controlman on the forward twin 40mm Bofors guns [Annotator's Note:...

Francis "Frank" Borrell was born in Beacon, New York, 60 miles north of New York City and ten miles from West Point [...

After the war, Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] had good reasons to stay in the...

Claude Shannahan's worst memories from Guadalcanal were largely from Bloody Ridge. With the Japanese approaching from...

Harold Buell flew his first combat mission at Midway on anti-submarine reconnaissance. He had only one prior experience...

Cecil Ezell McLain stopped in Singapore before heading home and witnessed five people die and several people blinded by...

Sterling Cale returned from the various Pacific islands where he was stationed to Honolulu and the hospital at Fort...

Yellin recalls that the Japanese were in the caves. One person described that the Japanese were not on Iwo Jima, but...

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