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Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

James Franklin Young was sent to Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in Beaufort...

[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...

At the first prisoner of war camp, Pearson Riddle had to work hauling earth and material in a giant cart. Riddle did...

When James Bollich was sent to Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines], he was still a mechanic, but he...

Alvin Barnes had coincidental meetings with a childhood friend during the war. He had a friend named Paul [Annotator's...

For Earl Williams, the war liberated Black people a great deal. There were the Tuskegee Airman [Annotator's Note:...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. and his crew mates used skip bombing [Annotator's Note: a low level bombing technique that...

Richard Miralles thought Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] was miserable. They had mud on...

When he was on shore leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in occupied Japan,...

John Edward Love [Annotator's Note: an American prisoner of war] and hundreds of other POWs were transferred from O'...

Only one of the fire bombing raids Lisle Neher flew was to Tokyo. The others were to other big cities. Each raid killed...

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