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Frank Savage was surprised to be relieving the 31st Infantry Division on Mindanao. That division was hit hard in the...

From there [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] they returned to Pearl Harbor. There, James Allen joined the Silversides [...

Donald Herbert Shown picked up a lifejacket from the grouping he found in nets on the boat deck [Annotator’s Note:...

Walter Amoss was born in 1924 in Lake Charles [Annotator's Note: Lake Charles, Louisiana] and grew up in New Orleans [...

Robert Dickinson boarded the newly commissioned USS Queenfish (SS-393) as a Seaman Second Class. It didn't seem like he...

James Richard O'Rorke trained in Fort Monmouth near Redback, New Jersey. All the trainees had previously been shipped...

Edward Riedl thought the people [Annotator's Note: he is referring to the people on Leyte, Philippines] seemed...

When the Japanese planned invasions on American, English or Filipino soil, they had to come up with a new code...

In January 1943, Frank M. Heuer Sr. enlisted in the Navy with his younger brother, Edward. Heuer, his brother, and...

George A. Damiano was born in Riverside, California in 1924. He grew up in a little town called Murrieta, California...

William Lutz remembers they took a bulldozer and pushed the ground over the caves [Annotator’s Note: He is referring to...

When the Japanese assaulted Wake Island the second time, Walter Bowsher was ordered to destroy his antiaircraft battery...

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