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Shortly after the attack on the ammunition ship at Darwin, Australia, Richard Micklich [Annotator’s Note: serving as a...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

Thomas Tizzard was on the USS Denver (CL-58) at Bougainville, covering the landing troops. They would bombard the...

Thomas J. Bostick was born in October 1923 in Laurinburg, North Carolina. His parents, both sharecroppers, traveled...

Walter Groth remembers the Jap [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] fleet came back in on...

Samuel Goss practiced at Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands aboard the USS Bladen (APA-64)]. He...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

When Dupuy got his wings, his sisters came down for the ceremony. After the ceremony he received a thirty day leave...

After being assigned to a squadron [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Marine Bombing Squadron 612 (VMB-612), a North...

Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...

Lenwood Steglich never talked about his time in the Navy. His family never asked him about it. His three grandchildren...

When the atomic bombs were dropped, Fiske Hanley and his fellow prisoners were totally unaware of the events, but...

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