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To Edmund Durocher, New Britain was just as bad as Guadalcanal. They went to New Guinea before they landed on New...

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

Philip Nelson was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey in December 1920. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

Irwin Schneider was injured on a PT boat patrol out of Milne Bay [Annotator’s Note: in Papua New Guinea]. He went to...

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

James Patterson was born in 1921 in Portland, Tennessee. He has one brother and one sister. He is the oldest child. His...

Alfred Dearman had never seen a tv [Annotator's Note: television] and kept reading about them. Another of his buddy and...

Donald Hoff was regularly assigned to fly with Ensign Stone. Hoff was used to flying with him and felt like they were a...

Everybody in the tent [Annotator's Note: at Camp Maui in Hawaii] with Steve McMurray was listening to the radio when...

Hugh Ettinger was discharged from the Navy and used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

They [Annotator's Note: Pedro Parra and the rest of the 854th Engineer Aviation Battalion] left Kwajalein [Annotator's...

On the way to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau], Melvin C. Whitman crossed paths with a Navy ship that...

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