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Mahlen Arledge was married on 24 December 1942. He was 18 and his new wife was 16 years old. She was still in high...

Bill Norberg was born in November 1922 in Lemington, Wisconsin. When Norberg was five or six years old, his family...

Edgar Marion Cole was born in Dallas, Texas in 1925. His parents were poor and he had to help the family financially...

[Annotator's Note: Stanley Richard Williams served in the Navy aboard the mortar ship USS LCI(M)-352 as a signalman and...

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

After the war, James Richard O'Rorke stumbled into various events that made his career what it was. That included some...

Robert L. Donovan landed in Leyte [Annotator’s Note: Leyte, the Philippines] on 20 October [Annotator’s Note: 20...

The 3rd Marine Division was loaded up and brought to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan on 22 February 1945...

Admiral Kinkaid [Annotato's Note: Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid] who had no experince with carriers or aviators, ordered a...

Jack D. Samuelson saw his first combat at Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg...

Robert G. Aldous' attitude was to either fight in the war or lose the war [Annotator's Note: when asked by the...

They [Annotators Note: the dive bombers] would cut the engines if nothing came back from the PBY's and call it a day [...

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