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For Thomas E. Warne the war ended on 14 August 1945 when the Japanese surrendered to the Americans. He supported the...

Edward Chinnis' most memorable experience of World War 2 was going through a typhoon with 55 foot waves. He fought...

Orville Carroll is glad he was not in combat. Two of his brothers were in the armed services as well, in Germany, but...

After World War 2, Sam S. McKeel was assigned as quartermaster on LST-492 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank]. He...

Arnold A. Mirsky was assigned as a navigator for the 1st Photo Mapping Charting Reconnaissance [Annotator's Note: 1st...

The Battle of the Driniumor River lasted for 45 days. William Garbo was attached to a regiment of the Army's Dixie...

Sidney Philips remembers the Marines bringing the amphibious tank up the creek from the beach. It was just sitting...

William “Bill” Knapp was born in July 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He moved from there to a farm in Allerton, Iowa when...

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

Louis Zamperini was converted in 1949. In 1951, he returned to Japan, particularly to visit Sugamo Prison because he...

James J. Hill had Pappy Boyington [Annotator's Note: later US Marine Corps Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington] as his...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

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