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Edward Allesandro said that most people are surprised to hear that the Coast Guard was fighting in World War 2. The USS...

Arthur Lee returned to the United States in December 1945 by way of the Aleutians, landing at Seattle, Washington. From...

Harry Walker Wellford attended the Navy V-12 program [Annotator’s Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Griffith was guarding the Florida Keys as a member of the 155th Infantry Regiment, 31st...

Benjamin Carson and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion left San Diego and headed to Pearl Harbor aboard the USS J....

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

Joe Clapper was born in Jonesboro, Indiana, but grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He joined the Marine Corps just out of...

Meda Royce Hall [Annotator's Note: a US Navy bombsight instructor] had one pilot that gave him some trouble because he...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine began attending school in the internment camp [Annotator's Note: the Santo Tomas...

Richard Witaker felt hatred for the Japanese before the assault of Okinawa. The feelings had begun with the surprise...

Gravois was born in Saint Gabriel, Louisiana and grew up in Edgard, Louisiana until he was 17.Pearl Harbor was on 7...

Edward Riedl thought the people [Annotator's Note: he is referring to the people on Leyte, Philippines] seemed...

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