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

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings returned to the States [Annotator's Note: United States] and was put on a list to be a...

Howard Cain was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in November 1926. At age seven, the family moved to Chicago [Annotator’s...

A month after fighting on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...

John Cassidy was born in June 1915 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a 17 year old girl who couldn't support a...

Elroy Gambino and the Marines [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division]...

A submarine was the first nuclear-powered vessel and the Nautilus' [Annotator's Note: USS Nautilus (SSN-571] reactor...

In the whole time James Buckley was on duty in the Pacific [Annotator's Note: as Deck Officer on the USS LST-1013], he...

Joseph Barger was assigned as a machinist’s mate in the engine rooms aboard the USS LST-716. After amphibious training...

Emmett Guderian's Navy career gave him all kinds of new experiences, from world travel to intense emotions. He...

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

Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...

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