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Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

The Japanese hit their fuel supplies and it caused a lot of damage [Annotator's Note: on Wake Island on 8 December 1941...

Aaron Baumgarten pointed out that he was serving in the Air Transport Command (ATC) during the era of Lend-Lease, when...

After dropping his bomb, Sumner Whitten turned to get away from the Haruna's [Annotator's Note: Imperial Japanese Navy...

For a couple of weeks, Richard Jaccarino unloaded ships and moved supplies inland. The enemy was expected to come back...

Raymond Day Gimbut was born in 1921 in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York,...

When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...

William J. Twigger had a cousin his age. His cousin and his brother had joined the Marine Corps early in the war....

Earl Williams was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in April 1923. He remembers being...

As a child in Dayton, Ohio Richard Cole was only a half hour bike ride from McCook Army Airfield where he would go to...

Wanda Damberg had relatives in Holland during the German occupation [Annotator’s Note: the German sweep into Holland...

Frank Campisano was told he would be invading an island and boarded a ship the Monday before Easter [Annotator's Note:...

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