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James Salerno was born in Summit, New Jersey, in 1918. Before the war he worked as a clerk in a store. Salerno chose...

They returned to Pearl Harbor but didn't stay long enough for Clayton Fisher to train. He still hadn't made any dives...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled that one day [Annotator's Note: one day while he was taking part in the Battle of...

James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

Adolfo V. Celaya went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. The training was difficult...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 5th Marine Division] stopped in Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan...

Carl Trim says the tensest time on any trip at sea was when the captain would call everyone to general quarters [...

Ray Eshelman did not take long to transition back to civilian life. He was looking forward to it. He did not miss the...

In October 1942, William S. “Bill” Beamish enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was inducted in San Pedro [Annotator’s...

Yukio Kawamoto's parents did not have to divulge too much about how their time in the camp went. Kawamoto had gotten a...

After basic training, Herbert Yudenfriend was sent to Camp Howze in Texas near Dallas [Annotator's Note: Cooke County,...

While James Newsom was aboard the Cole [Annotator's Note: USS Cole (DD-155)], he slept back aft by the engineers. That...

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