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Mark Maynard witnessed a big celebration at the end of the war. Some men even drank torpedo fuel which contained...

Homer Myers was born in Union Grove, North Carolina in October 1924. His parents worked hard on a little farm. He got...

James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

Walter Bowsher felt the commander of the prison camp at Wusong was the worst person he met. He was named Ishihara [...

On one patrol, Melvin C. Whitman shot a big rat off a fence. The shot scared a hiding Japanese soldier and one of...

Jack Linscott was stationed in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California]. They left for Australia in...

While James Newsom was aboard the Cole [Annotator's Note: USS Cole (DD-155)], he slept back aft by the engineers. That...

Harold Buell flew his first combat mission at Midway on anti-submarine reconnaissance. He had only one prior experience...

Frank Savage transferred to the 93rd Infantry Division. He became the assistant to the Adjutant of the special troops...

After Japan captured the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Fall of the Philippines, invasion by the Empire of Japan, 8...

After a narrow escape from a deadly Japanese ambush, and a tragic friendly fire casualty that night, William Garbo and...

Donald H. "Don" Bee saw his first action [Annotator's Note: as a crewman aboard the USS Intrepid (CV-11)], when a...

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