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Claude Bufford Shaw spent his entire wartime service in the Pacific, except for two short trips to the United States to...

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

While serving aboard the USS Hall (DD-583) in the Marshall Islands, William Currier helped search for a downed Marine...

Robert S. Gibbs was born in December 1923 in Cedarhurst, New York. He had one sister who was older than him. His family...

Adolph Wilson was a platoon sergeant on Iwo Jima but acted as a lieutenant after the officers were wounded or killed....

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine during World War 2. As a result of the war, his father realized his dream...

Archibald Rackerby was training to go to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] after Bougainville [Annotator's...

Charles Wesley Borders and his fellow pilots all started at about the same time. They had three flights of 11 pilots,...

Theodore Marolda returned to the United States via San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. It was...

Saipan was a bigger island then Tinian so it required a different kind of fight. After Tinian, Michael Mervosh felt...

When they left the ground they were going a little under 80 miles per hour. The ship was making about 20 knots and...

Walter Alan Bowsher, Jr. was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His father was in the Army chasing Poncho Villa at the time....

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