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George A. Damiano recalls an incident where his comrade, Blacky [Annotator's Note: unable to verify identity], was hit...

Jack Leaming was aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) in November 1941. [Annotator's Note: Leaming served in the Navy as a...

They started back to Australia to begin the process of removing the dead from the ship [Annotators Note: from the USS...

When Charles Wesley Borders was not flying, he had some reading material and records. They would also play ball. There...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. arrived in New Guinea at an airbase formed out of the jungle [Annotator's Note: he was a tail...

Before being shipped out as a replacement to the Pacific, Robert Leroy Shirkey was put on guard duty at the wharves in...

Nevin Sledge admired the SeaBees [Annotator's Note: Members of US naval construction battalions]. They did everything...

Bailey and the Marines got there [Annotator's Note: Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa] on the 11th [Annotator's Note: 11 June 1945...

Theodore Marolda has had to pay out of his own pocket for medical expenses because veteran benefits would take too long...

Michael Maziarczyk was born in July 1922. He was raised on a farm in Cameron, Pennsylvania. His mother had 14 children...

Edward F. Kent and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 602nd Field Artillery Battalion (Pack)] were selected to go to Italy...

Paul Fair remembers it was sandy on the beach of New Guinea, then it turned into a jungle. The weapons he used did not...

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