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George A. Damiano graduated from high school shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

James N. Rizzo sailed overseas to the Pacific. He did not travel with his whole group [Annotator's Note: 553rd Air...

Paul J. Murphy [Annotator’s Note: a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] sailed to San Francisco [...

Adolph William Amundson recalled that by the time he arrived at the island [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], the...

Mason Brownell Fitch was born in September 1925 in Rochester, New York. He graduated high school in 1943 and took the...

Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in 5th Marine Division] had to be responsible for his 30 camera guys [...

Leo Denault was shipped to Ieshima [Annotator’s Note: Ieshima, Japan]. They were still clearing the jungle. This is...

Allen Horton was commissioned out of midshipmen's school in Chicago, Illinois, and proceeded to Scouts and Raiders...

Richard Lafleur could smell Japan as they got close. Before long they could see the coastline. He envisioned what the...

The Japanese had done a real job of planting all kinds of explosives [Annotator's Note: on Peleliu]. Arthur Jackson...

Church recently made a trip back to Guam and laid a wreath down at the monument for the soldiers killed there during...

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