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Vaughan Whitworth got a couple of weeks to prepare prior to reporting to Montford Point [Annotator's Note: Camp...

They were two days at sea when the PA system came on informing them that the group was headed for Tokyo [Annotators...

John Sanford Gilman was born in Rochester, New York in November 1918. He grew up with an older brother and twin sister...

Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...

Karen K. Lewis never suffered from post-traumatic stress after her experiences in an internment camp. She was never...

Claude Shannahan joined the 3rd Marines [Annotator's Note: 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division]. He went with the...

Dale Bates was born in Salem, Oregon in January 1924. Bates’ father worked in the banking industry and, as such, the...

One of the guys that James Ramage was flying with looked back at one of the burning Japanese carriers and said, "Look...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn and the 3rd Marine Division went ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan on 23 February 1945 and...

Martin Sherbecoe was born in 1920 in Stamford, Connecticut. His father was a skilled mechanic and from a very early age...

Floyd James Reissig was a Petty Officer 3rd Class in the Navy. He served as a Coxswain [Annotator's Note: person in...

Bill Norberg remembers Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] exerting his power prior to the start of...

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