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George Joseph Bertucci went to San Diego, California for basic training. After three weeks, he went aboard the USS...

Thomas Edward Pugh enjoyed returning to the United States, but also enjoyed going overseas. Pugh was surprised when he...

Yukio Kawamoto was born in Berkeley, California in November 1919. He was drafted into the Army from the University of...

In late 1943, Charles A. Waller boarded a ship from San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] with 800 other...

For the first battle of the Matanikau, James Smith and the Raiders were going to go up the river and 1st Battalion, 7th...

Samuel Malta and the men in combat were just kids who were 18 or 19 years old. The combat troops felt they were...

[Annotator's Note: Clarence Becker was a pilot flying photo reconnaissance mapping missions in Alaska in 1943.] They...

After the war ended, Thomas J. Smith, Junior and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine...

Lawrence Brooks followed the war while he was in service. One of the islands he was on had Japanese pillboxes. The...

John Smith was already in the service when the war started and he wanted to get into the fight, but he admits that when...

Another incident James Morehead felt worth recounting happened when he was flying a protection flight while other...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

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