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The second day they were run out by the Japanese again [Annotators Note: On Okinawa, April 1945]. Deen notes that it...

Olaf Rose was born in August 1921 in Pontiac, Michigan, and was the oldest of four children. His father was in the...

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

After the Japanese surrendered, Richard Bennett was last to leave PT-470. He skippered the boat through bad weather...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] and her...

Lawrence Winnier cannot really blame the people because it [Annotator's Note: racial discrimination in the service] was...

When Phineas Stevens left Leyte Gulf [Annotator's Note: Battle of Leyte, Philippines, 17 October to 26 December 1944]...

The day after the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea] Alex Vraciu was...

Crump was only aware that the Depression was a tragedy. Times were hard. Crump’s dad was unemployed half of the time....

The war made Harry McKnight appreciate being a Marine and the freedom he has in this country [Annotator's Note: The...

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