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William Pierce hated the Japanese before landing on Okinawa. Propaganda influenced his animosity. His feelings were...

Eugene Tarrant has certain memories from the war that have stuck with him to this day. One night off of Guadalcanal,...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

Adolfo V. Celaya first encountered a man laying on his back [Annotator’s Note: while in the Pacific Ocean after the...

Jack Leaming was aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) in November 1941. [Annotator's Note: Leaming served in the Navy as a...

Robert L. Rorschach enlisted in the Navy and attended Midshipman School at Prairie State, and spent time aboard the...

Robert Erskine Hendrick [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th Marine Defense Battalion on Eastern Island, Midway...

On his second day on Iwo Jima, Japan, William Wayne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th...

Joseph Townsend went to the sick bay in Pearl [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. Townsend was x-rayed and they...

Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] was at Indiantown...

Frank Pomroy describes Johnny Rivers in detail saying the he liked to drink quite a bit and punched a hole in their...

Angus Francis Mestayer returned to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. They got a month long leave [...

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