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The war came along. Francis Bucher remembers first hearing that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

Richard H. Kerr was born in June 1946 in Edgerton, Wisconsin. He grew up with a brother and sister. His father was a...

In Formosa [Annotator's Note: present day Taiwan], Bruno S. Rinas worked in the sugar cane fields. He carried "honey...

Karen K. Lewis was born in 1932 in Glendale, California. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

After Japan captured the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Fall of the Philippines, invasion by the Empire of Japan, 8...

Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] got a message from the Naval Air Station [Annotator's...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Bonefish (SS-223) in the role of the quartermaster. After a very successful first...

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

While on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau], Melvin C. Whitman saw two Zeros [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

Philip Mayer was a sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

Pete Brock and his twin brother enlisted in the Navy together on 27 April 1944 and were called to active duty on 6 June...

The 24th [Annotator's Note: 24 December 1941] was the same; no water and no food. They could barely talk. On the...

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