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When Trinidad Ledesma lived in Riverside, California, he would get up in the middle of the night and make his family...

James Wilson did not see the bullets coming when he got shot [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of the Tenaru River,...

Ben Kuroki was amazed that he only saw one Japanese Zero [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M fighter aircraft, also known...

The next little village Holly Rees' division approached was Keradera [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] with Company...

Jack Holder was born in December 1921 in his mother’s hometown of Gunter, Texas. His father was a World War 1 veteran,...

On occasion, Charles Nathan Lane would be under fire from Japanese snipers. One Japanese sniper fired at a soldier...

The day after this last action there was hardly anyone left in Jack Houston's company [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd...

That afternoon, Clayton Fisher and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Bombing Squadron 8 (VB-8)] were launched again to...

George Colburn only heard scuttlebutt [Annotator's Note: a period slang term for a rumor]. He was just a Private and...

Willie Roy Hebert did not talk with his family about the war. [Annotator's Note: Hebert's wife talks about her father...

Raymond Loidolt took a Navy destroyer back to the United States from China. They went through mines [Annotator's Note:...

Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

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