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Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade went to Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] to join an accelerated Navy officer...

Ray Camp was born in December 1924 in Friendship, Tennessee. He lived there on a farm until he got drafted. He received...

Vernon Henry Moret recalled a banzai attack on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipain, Northern Mariana Islands]. The...

Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] participated in the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator's...

Henry Quinton Pike was part of the 3rd Raider Battalion [Annotator's Note: 3rd Marine Raider Battalion] which invaded...

William Winter would go out with the patrols to round up Japanese soldiers. They had an airplane and would go pick...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Bonefish (SS-223) in the role of the quartermaster. War patrol became an everyday...

Lauren Bruner was born in November 1920 in Shelton, Washington. He discusses his upbringing and childhood by recounting...

Susan Magnuson Devoe and her family moved to Lima, Peru for her father's company in 1948, and stayed there until 1953...

Before the war, Jack Leaming had a Japanese friend in the second grade, whose parents sold Japanese clothing on the...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the US Marine Corps] served in World War 2. He was on active duty in...

James Richard O'Rorke was assigned to a Japanese baron and his beautiful home which was safe between Nagasaki [...

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