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Edmund Durocher spent three months on Pavuvu. The Marine brass cut the division [Annotator's Note: the 1st Marine...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13),...

Edward Bale and his Marine Corps Medium Tank Company were told that the enemy resistance on the island of Tarawa would...

Taken back to the time when the USS Perch (SS-176) was forced to dive and was then depth charged in the shallow waters...

Windom Joseph Burton was aboard the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] when it was hit by enemy...

Dupuy and his flight were coming back from Kyushu [Annotators Note: Japanese main island]. One of their pilots had...

[Annotator's Note: Richard R. Ruess served as a navigator in the 1st Mapping Group.] He received orders [Annotator's...

Samuel Goss had no idea that he would become a boat officer. Before he graduated as an ensign [Annotator's Note: lowest...

Marvin Hill was born in November 1925 in Louisa County, Virginia, the only male child of six children. His father was...

Robert Leese was born in February 1923 in Manheim, Pennsylvania, one of six siblings. When he was four years old, the...

When Alexander Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when his parachute opened up. He...

[Annotator's Note: James Allen served in the Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class in the submarine service and was aboard the...

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