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Donald Draxler was born in Glenwood City, Wisconsin in July 1923. His home town was near the "Twin Cities" [Annotator’s...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm [Annotator’s Note: a navigational equipment technician assigned to the 415th AACS (Army...

Sam L. Miller was born in September 1926 and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He was an only child because his mother could...

Nevin Sledge remembers people were going crazy in Honolulu [Annotator’s Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] after they heard the...

Crump and the Chief Engineer had done some work when the seas were calm. The Chief Engineer felt that there was a...

After boot camp, Robert Powers joined a rifle company at Camp Elliot, then volunteered for a Marine Raider unit. He...

After picking up the 3rd Division [Annotator's Note: 3rd Marine Division], the Marines landed on the island [Annotator'...

From California they went to Kwajalein. There, Wendall Woodall tried to talk his radar operator into trying some...

Calvin Barrick was transferred to the USS Searaven (SS-196) which was an older submarine based out of Pearl Harbor. He...

Claude Bufford Shaw was born in Marie, Arkansas, in 1918. When his Midshipman class graduated on 13 December 1941, he...

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

Keith Renstrom felt like he had too much responsibility to stay with his men [Annotator's Note: even after being...

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