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[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

Gerry Jones recalls that the Japanese would push the Okinawan [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] natives through the...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Burrell was sent overseas after nearly being court-martialed in boot camp.] Joseph Burrell...

Victor K. Carman was happy to be assigned to his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Cabot (CVL-28)]. Some sailors were sent to...

Lloyd Guillory and the other new pilots were told that they would initially train in P-40s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P...

Garland Bath was born in January 1925 in Evans County, Georgia in a log cabin. He attended school there. He got his...

James Gulotta was sent to New Caledonia. New Caledonia was a French possession which was used a staging area for new...

On their approach, Steve McMurray had heard that the landings on Iwo Jima were not going well. The scenes on the...

Without any time to become acquainted with anyone, Aloysius "Al" Arend was put on a ship bound for combat in the...

Harold Jones' [Annotator's Note: combat veteran of the Philippines with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese, Earl Conklin said they were "pretty vicious," but conceded that combat makes...

Judge Gordon Thompson was born in June 1926 in Perry County, Alabama. He grew up with two sisters on a hundred-acre...

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