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Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

When Alfred Dearman got to Japan, he went to a replacement depot. He waited around there with his friend he had gone to...

Ray Dennis Irby was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] for two years [Annotator's Note: during the Korean...

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

After recuperating, Gerald West left for New Georgia. The Raiders landed on New Georgia at one o’clock in the morning...

Jack Skaggs heard about Pearl Harbor on Monday morning, 8 December 1941. [Annotator's Note: Wake Island is west of, and...

Leon Griffith was on Dinagat Island [Annotator's Note: Dinagat Island, Philippines] and the Japanese sent a barge of...

[Annotator's Note: Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson served in the Navy in Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 6 (MTBRon 6) and took...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn and the 3rd Marine Division went ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan on 23 February 1945 and...

James Wilson shows the helmet he had on [Annotator's Note: when he was shot while serving with Company G, 2nd Battalion...

Richard Bennett remembers that it was in the Palau Islands that his vessel had their most memorable encounters with the...

William “Bill” Knapp was part of the Okinawa invasion on Easter morning 1945 [Annotator’s Note: Knapp was a coxswain on...

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