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Hilar Moore sailed from San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Higgins served in the US Marine Corps in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Peleliu.] Normally, the...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

Dr. Peter Paret, military historian and author, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, and his youth and life were shaped...

Benjamin Albert Glusing’s unit [Annotator's Note: 208th Military Police Company] was given secret orders. The orders...

There were plenty of men with shell shock [Annotator's Note: psychological disturbance caused by prolonged exposure to...

Clem Thrift said the United States was suffering under the threat of German submarine attacks, so the destroyer escorts...

Formosa [Annotator's Note: Republic of Formosa; present day Taiwan] had not been hit and was going to be hit for the...

Edward F. Kent was born in November 1917 and grew up with one older sister. During the Great Depression [Annotator's...

Randall Edwards does not remember how he got "mixed up with the Russians," but he has photos that prove he did. He does...

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