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Forrest Villarrubia found the weather on Guam to be beautiful while he was stationed there after his tour in Leyte. The...

The prisoners of war knew that there was a possibility that they would be attacked during the voyage to Japan.When they...

Salvatore Famularo went to Maui in the Hawaiian islands. He went into the 4th Marine Division [Annotator's Note:...

Raymond Urban was born in September 1920 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. They left there when he was young and moved around...

After the war, Robert Marich worked in television. A show he produced featured couples who had been married a long time...

John Bradley [Annotator's Note: born in Manila, Philippines to an American father and Australian mother in 1936] cannot...

Years later Vejtasa asked Japanese veterans if they had thought about strafing the deck and they said no. Vejtasa would...

Stationed in the Philippines before the war, James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a member of Signal Corps Aircraft...

When Astley Blackwell got in the water he realized that his life belt had a hole in it. He grabbed a keg which had come...

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

Charles Womack and every other Marine on the island were fully aware that they were headed for Japan after the fighting...

John Singlaub had expected that his team would lead an attack on a German garrison, but a competing Communist...

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