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William Wayne had joined the Marine Corps with John Shepperly who got shot through the arm landing on Iwo Jima, Japan....

Wallace Spencer remembers when they were under attack. All the guns were firing. The crew was sitting there watching...

Harry A. Donovan received the Purple Heart [Annotator's Note: a Purple Heart Medal is award bestowed upon a United...

On December 7th [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1941], Robert Erskine Hendricks [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th...

Alex Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M...

Harold DeForest was born in March 1924 in Saint Catherine's, Canada. His mother brought him to the United States when...

Claude Taylor returned from China and disembarked in San Francisco. He returned to Louisiana where he was discharged...

On 7 December 1941, Edmund Aziz and his fiancée were watching a matinee in Detroit, Michigan. When they came out of the...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade does not know how World War 2 changed him. After he left the service, he wanted to go back to...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] became sick with diarrhea [Annotator's Note: loose, watery...

Miller Lampell, who had written a radio program, was assigned by the New York Herald Tribune to write Ben Kuroki's...

After high school, Harold Whitaker was bumming around and getting trouble until his mother and a family friend...

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