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[Annotator's Note: Henry Bourgeois served in the USMC as a pilot flying Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft with Marine...

When the Japanese planned invasions on American, English or Filipino soil, they had to come up with a new code...

Jack H. Bleuler was discharged from the Army Air Corps in October 1945 as a staff sergeant at Barksdale Airfield [...

Richard Witaker experienced much the same climate on Okinawa as he knew at home. There were pine trees and cultivated...

The only help Fiske Hanley remembers getting from the Red Cross while he was overseas was the loan of two books when he...

During the 13 months that Richard McEwen was in combat, he described the Japanese activity where he was as a "backup...

Mark Maynard witnessed a big celebration at the end of the war. Some men even drank torpedo fuel which contained...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when they dropped the atomic bomb [...

Adolfo V. Celaya was taken aboard the Basset [Annotator’s Note: USS Bassett (APD-73), which rescued 154 survivors of...

When he set sail, Gerald West had never heard of Guadalcanal. He didn't learn about it until he was about to attack it...

Besides the attack from the Japanese scout, Carroll Harris did not have any other combat experiences with the Japanese...

Vernon Henry Moret boarded a plane on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] to rejoin his unit [...

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