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Ralph Marcarelli saw nothing but jungle when he landed at Milne Bay, New Guinea. He came from the city to the jungle....

When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

When Feightner pulled up at the end of the runway he was hit again. His F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F "Hellcat"...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

James "Jim" Marshall and his unit [Annotator's Note: 499th Bombardment Group, 73rd Bombardment Wing, 20th Air Force]...

Ferrier did not like the way they were awarding flight orders to the crewman. Ferrier made his boss well aware of that...

Albert Yamamoto's [Annotator's Note: an American citizen who was in Japan during the war] most memorable experience of...

Forrest Villarrubia was born in 1925 in Lacombe, Louisiana. Lacombe is on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, just...

Charles Womack was born in October 1922 and grew up in McComb, Mississippi. His parents were divorced and his father...

Going through a barrier, James Bollich and a friend ran into Japanese troops after getting separated from the group....

Richard Greer served as a machinegunner in Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. During...

When the Japanese planned invasions on American, English or Filipino soil, they had to come up with a new code...

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