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Michael Maziarczyk was born in July 1922. He was raised on a farm in Cameron, Pennsylvania. His mother had 14 children...

Paul Kerchum, a prisoner of the Japanese held in a camp in Cabanatuan [Annotator’s Note: Cabanatuan, the Philippines],...

That was the end of combat for Harold DeForest. After DeForest got out of the hospital he was supposed to go back to...

Lester Hecht returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Coast Guard boat. He was sent...

Roy Boreen spent a year and a half as part of the USS Oklahoma's (BB-37) 3rd Division Deck Force. Every Friday was...

When Harold Ronson got onto the beach at Iwo [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945, Iwo...

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was shipped...

The war started and 50 of Charles Wesley Borders' classmates went to Canada to join the RCAF [Annotator's Note: Royal...

Edgar Harrell stayed in a hospital in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] for some time [Annotator's Note:...

When Blanchard's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Franklin, CV-13] was attacked he didn't realize how close they were to...

James Billingsley was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in November 1923. He remembers the Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

Hunger and thirst tormented Cleatus Lebow and his fellow shipmates from the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) who were stranded...

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