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[Annotator's Note: Astley Blackwell was a plane captain servicing Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS...

Remembering the first patrol he experienced, Olaf Rose said, "It gets hot, and the boats are coming at you." The PT...

Robert D. Shaner's mom was German and was upset with the Germans after the First World War and her German relatives who...

That was as close as Emmett Kaylor ever came to getting hit [Annotator's Note: during a Japanese attack in the...

One day, they [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] loaded Alfred Raymond Mosher and others onto an inland sea ferry and...

While Paul Bannai was in Japan, he knew his family would be able to leave their internment camp. He was given...

Bailey continued on. After he passed Naha [Annotators Note: May 1945, Naha, Okinawa] he encountered civilians for the...

Charles Struble [Annotator's Note: of the 421st Bombardment Squadron, 504th Bombardment Group, 20th Air Force]...

At the same time Rochford was getting relieved, Captain Goggin was replacing him and was on the way to take over. There...

Wanda Damberg was born of a Dutch father who served as a diplomat in the Philippines starting in 1916. He met Damberg’s...

Kenneth Dwight Wells was shipped to the Pacific in November 1944 aboard the USS O.H. Ernst (AP-133) [Annotator's Note:...

Trinidad Ledesma was born in November 1924 in Downey, California. His parents did not speak English. They only spoke...

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