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Yellin recalls strafing runs on Chici-jima which was about a hundred or so miles from Iwo Jima. Yellin strafed the...

At Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia], Benjamin Albert Glusing was shown how to get the Cosmoline [...

Ben Ray Bost is the only veteran left alive of the men on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316]. He was born in...

Harold Joslin joined the Navy around 1939. He liked the idea of going to sea. He also really wanted to get off the farm...

[Annotator's Note: Keith Kiefer was assigned to a Radiological Cleanup detail on Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands while...

After high school in San Francisco, California, Peter Paret entered the University of California at Berkley. He...

On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Sunday, 7 December 1941], J. W. Childs saw one Japanese...

Walter Groth remembers that military intelligence had underestimated the number of Japanese on the island [Annotator’s...

Ira Schilling was born in June 1924 in Saratoga, Texas. His parents separated when he was very young and he moved to...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was still on the ship when the Marines on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]...

Paul Sparacino [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5) during Operation Dominic, series of...

Harvey Lee Bishop [Annotator’s Note: a North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft pilot in the 457th Fighter Squadron...

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