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John Cassidy served as an aide to an admiral during his tenure in the Pacific, and the two men got along well. Cassidy...

Paul Hilliard believes the SBD Dauntless is much underrated and unfortunately much unrecognized. WWII books sometimes...

Carlos V. Reed was born in December 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He was an only child. Before he was one year old,...

By the second day of basic training Leon J. Neiman realized how hard serving in the military was going to be. One day...

Jack Skaggs and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] from Wake Island were marched about five miles to...

On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Sunday, 7 December 1941], J. W. Childs saw one Japanese...

While Carl Rieman was off of Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], the USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84)...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom’s mother worked by having boarders. His mother was able to buy two houses with the money she...

Joe G. Casillas had his baptism of fire right on the escarpment [Annotator's Note: after landing on Okinawa, Japan, 10...

For Thomas E. Warne the war ended on 14 August 1945 when the Japanese surrendered to the Americans. He supported the...

Melvin C. Whitman was surprised the Japanese did not fight back against the invasion [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

When the ceremony was over [Annotators Note: the Japanese surrender ceremony on 2 September 1945] the sky was filled...

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