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William Burkett left the States in August 1945. He was in an eight-ship convoy. They left from San Francisco [Annotator...

Charles Wesley Borders was up at the north end of Luzon [Annotator's Note: Luzon, Philippines] just before the invasion...

When the Japanese planned invasions on American, English or Filipino soil, they had to come up with a new code...

Wallace McKay went to Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Solomon Islands], where troops were being trained...

The USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84) joined with another carrier, the USS Kitkun Bay (AVG-71), headed for Leyte in the...

Basilone [Annotator's Note: Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone] and his guys went ashore in the third wave. William...

The one other combat action Carl Rieman experienced in the Philippines occurred in the Surigao Strait. The whole fleet...

To William Lansford, all campaigns had goofy things happen. The first time he went out by himself he had been warned of...

Home base for William Beaman and the USS Flasher (SS-249) was Perth, Australia. At the end of a two month mission, the...

Hugh Wingo was born in August 1918 in South Carolina. When he was 13 years old, they moved to North Carolina. He lived...

Charles “Chuck” Franzke’s orders were changed after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August...

James Wilson got off Cape Gloucester [Annotator's Note: Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, February 1944]...

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