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Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez was born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents with Irish ancestry in April 1924. He joined the...

Louis Block graduated from high school in June 1944. They discussed the war, but not at length. They were more focused...

A great number of the troops that were mustered were from the South. Warren J. Haslauer believes the Southern people,...

The Marines knew they would be getting into a yellow jacket's nest if they had to invade Japan. When the war ended,...

When they [Annotators Note: James Smith and the rest of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] went back to New Zealand, they...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Jack Skaggs saw several POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] accidentally killed by the electrical wire surrounding...

Mark Maynard [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] sailed from Pearl Harbor to Midway to top off fuel...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Keller served in the Army as the company commander of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 148th...

Judge Gordon Thompson was born in June 1926 in Perry County, Alabama. He grew up with two sisters on a hundred-acre...

James Bowie joined the Marine Corps. He only knew what he saw in the newsreels. He had an uncle who served in the Navy...

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