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Jacques Brewster Smith [Annotator's Note: with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division] boarded a...

After twelve weeks of training in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi] Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was sent...

Dale Peterson felt the Okinawa campaign to be the most difficult. He was at battle stations 113 times. Fear of death...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when they dropped the atomic bomb [...

Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] had his first combat...

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

Roy Stewart and his unit [Annotator's Note: in the 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division] entered the "amphitheater...

David R. Saunders recalled when they announced that the war was over. Everyone was hooping and hollering. When he...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow [Annotator's Note: enlisted in the US Navy in 1944, trained as a torpedo bomber gunner and...

Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was born in September 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked at the Roosevelt...

Louis Conter was located between the USS Arizona (BB-39)'s turrets three and four during the attack. With the terrible...

On 7 December 1941, Theodore Pavlovich, along with many of his fellow riflemen, was on their barracks roof using the...

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