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After the Battle of the Tenaru River, Frank H. O’Leary and his squad were only given one and half meals a day because...

William Jennings Bryan Harrison, Jr. has fond and scary memories of his military service. He cannot imagine staying in...

Edmund Durocher landed on Guadalcanal weighing 156 pounds and left weighing 126. He had no socks because they had...

Charles Martin did not want to be drafted into the Army. He tried to enlist in the Air Force cadet school. He passed...

Phineas Stevens was born in Jackson, Mississippi in December 1917. He grew up during the Great Depression. He attended...

The Second World War experience that stands out most in Mark Brannon's mind was being on a destroyer, a position that...

James "Jim" Tubach was discharged at Fort Lewis, Washington and returned to Falls City, Nebraska. His family only knew...

Milton L. McMullen, Sr. was in Hawaii until 1 December [Annotator's Note: 1 December 1941]. He was then transferred to...

One of the guys that James Ramage was flying with looked back at one of the burning Japanese carriers and said, "Look...

Richard O'Hara went into the Guard [Annotator's Note: Indiana National Guard] sometime in the 1960s as a Second...

Donald Herbert Shown joined the Navy and completed boot camp in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] in...

During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

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