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George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were first attacked by Japanese suicide aircraft in the Lingayen...

Dupuy flew air support for the Marines who were landing on Tinian [Annotators Note: July 1944]. The invasion took...

Calvin Moore went to one place where a guy hit him with an axe. They were cutting black mahogany trees. He does not...

Harold Zeringer joined the 466 [Annotator's Note: USS PC-466] which was a warship of the first magnitude. Zeringer had...

Walter Nelson had a different pilot for his first raid. The pilot’s name was Lieutenant Womper [Annotators Note: unsure...

Ellis Whaley spent a lot of time talking to his boys before they got off their ship [Annotator's Note: during the...

Jack Yusen remembers the shells flying by sounded like freight trains and the explosions sounding like thunder. Another...

Earl Dean Browning took part in three major battles [Annotator's Note: with the Anti-Tank Company, 35th Infantry...

The Marine Raiders formed from Gerald West's old battalion, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. The Raiders were...

Donald H. "Don" Bee served two years in the Navy. He heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons...

Leo William Schmittgens trained with a M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as...

Ittsei Nakagawa was born in January 1930 in Fresno, California. He was fortunate in that the lady who delivered him was...

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