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James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

When the 2nd Marine Division shipped out from New Zealand only the battalion commanders knew the specifics of the...

Milton L. McMullen, Sr. heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

John Gehrett was sent to a Navy supply school in conjunction with Harvard Business School [Annotator's Note: at Harvard...

Alex Vraciu lost his wing man, Brockmeyer [Annotators Note: US Navy Ensign Homer Brockmeyer] out over the Japanese...

Martin Carmody did his flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas. When he graduated nine months later he was sent to San...

William Wayne got out of the hospital and was in the Marine Transit Center in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Angus Francis Mestayer remembers the New Zealanders were not too friendly. They had been fighting in South Africa for...

John Nicholas lost touch with his half brother, George Hamaty, for three years during the war. While Nicholas was on...

In mid 1942, Jack Leaming and approximately 60 other prisoners of war, POWs, were transferred to a camp in Osaka. The...

Nick Cristiano says the Japanese guards [Annotator's Note: at Ofuna prisoner of war camp, Kamakura, Japan] were bored...

Harold Hauberg [Annotator's Note: with Company D, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division]...

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