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The only help Fiske Hanley remembers getting from the Red Cross while he was overseas was the loan of two books when he...

After choosing the US Navy, Stanley John Niec attended boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: in...

Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little-known language...

Childers was then assigned to Ft. Rucker, Alabama. Childers though that Ft. Rucker would be good duty but it wasn't. He...

Fred Bergeron was 19 years old when he took part in the Battle of Midway. He did not really have any idea just how...

The Marines on Midway were a little shook up themselves. Just after they landed, a bomber squadron from the Hornet [...

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

Jimmie Dyer returned to the United States in July 1946. He wanted to surprise his family. His uncle was the undertaker...

Leo Denault was always singing in the shower. He loved music. They put on a show. They built a stage with a roof on it...

During the 13 months that Richard McEwen was in combat, he described the Japanese activity where he was as a "backup...

[Annotator's Note: William Smith was flying out of Charters Towers, Australia]. They were shipped from Port Moresby to...

Sterling Cale was born in Macomb, Illinois in 1921. Shortly after birth, he went into an orphanage for four years....

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