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When William Goldsborough learned about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

David Heath was told the Marines could not use a man with a hole in his stomach, so he was shipped back to Camp...

Dave Severance joined the Marine Corps in October 1938 at the age of 19. He was on liberty in Los Angeles when he first...

Wallace Spencer was in Sampson, New York [Annotator's Note: Naval Training Station Sampson in Sampson, New York] for a...

Andrew Leblanc was shipped to the Philippines. He lived in a pup tent [Annotator's Note: also called a shelter-half,...

Thomas Francis Schicker heard that they changed course four different times [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS General...

Upon arrival in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in June 1945, Jacob Velfling, Jr. and the rest of his...

Charles A. Waller’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was his interaction with General MacArthur [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

William Lutz left his unit when there was no shooting. It was as if the war had stopped. He just kept walking. The...

Jack Leaming had a buddy nicknamed Ace who was a prisoner of war, POW, from the carrier Yorktown. [Annotator's Note: At...

Walter Amoss reached the Imperial Hotel [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] where the headquarters for MacArthur [...

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