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Benjamin Carson assessed the battle for Bougainville to be unique in the sense that the intent was not to capture the...

Robert Powers never saw his comrade who was captured again. He knew that if he were captured he would be killed. If...

In the early summer of 1945, Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker]...

After Orville Bethard went aboard ship [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] they went to Australia where...

After finishing up in Guam [Annotator's Note: Second Battle of Guam, 21 July to 10 August 1944 at Guam, Mariana Islands...

Socrates Dendrinelis did not date in high school. He was the president of his class. He went out with the vice-...

On 7 December 1941, Ray Emory stayed on his gun all day and all night, without relief. After he saw the USS Oklahoma (...

William Beaman was born in October 1924 in Dayton, Ohio, the only boy of three children. His father died when he was...

There was a lot of Uncle Sam [Annotator's Note: Uncle Sam; a common national personification of the federal government...

Thomas Francis Schicker and the men [Annotator's Note: of Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Frederick Jenkins thought it was hard to get organized. He had a school teacher as his company commander during boot...

The biggest problem on Rufus Harris' ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Miami (CL-89)] was a typhoon [Annotator's Note:...

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