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Robert Powers never saw his comrade who was captured again. He knew that if he were captured he would be killed. If...

Merrill was returning from a search mission just as the Doolittle Raiders were taking off from the Hornet [Annotator's...

Forrest Villarrubia recollects climbing up a tree and being shot at as his most memorable occurrence of World War 2. [...

Kenneth Raymond Goodwin graduated high school in 1944. His birthday was 31 August [Annotator's Note: 31 August 1944]....

Peter Gallo was discharged as a PFC [Annotator's Note: Private First Class]. He began life as "kind of a sick kid," who...

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) were part of Task Group 38.2 under Admiral...

James L. Wheeler spoke to a high school class and there was a person of Japanese descent in it. He asked what Wheeler...

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

Fiske Hanley II [Annotator's Note: with the 504th Bombardment Group, 313th Bombardment Wing, 20th Air Force] was...

Hugh Wingo and his unit trained at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] for a while before they went...

After a few days at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: near Hattiesburg, Mississippi], Ray Fitzgerald was sent to Saint...

Martin Suter was in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] when he heard about the atomic bomb strikes....

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