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On the way to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau], Melvin C. Whitman crossed paths with a Navy ship that...

Keith Renstrom discusses what it was like to train soldiers. One time, he witnessed a soldier giving bayonet...

Ben Steele knew things were getting tense when he was sent overseas. When he got to Hawaii, he received orders to go to...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was born in June 1924 in Schenectady, New York. He was a senior in high school and had just...

Lloyd Guillory made one flight against Rabaul. Rabaul was a Japanese airfield that was a very hot spot. It was bypassed...

Victor K. Carman was born in April 1927 in Woodmere, New York on Long Island. His parents divorced when he was three...

When they [Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen and the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)] arrived at Pearl Harbor the men looked...

The prisoners had their own doctors they had to rely on. They had a Japanese doctor assigned to them but he was not 1...

Joseph DeMott [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war of the Japanese] left the war feeling that we are all human beings...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs transferred back to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. The seven or eight tugs...

Eugene Corson was happy to be in the Navy. It was rough. He went to boot camp in Rhode Island at an airbase. He could...

Tenney's first contact with the Japanese was on the morning of the 10th [Annotators Note: April 10, 1942] in a bivouac...

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