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Howard Warren Stokes was born in 1926 in Lodi, California and was an only child. His father supported his family during...

Jacklyn Lucas got a call from the President of the United States, Harry Truman [Annotator's Note: Harry S. Truman, 33rd...

Leo Denault was discharged on 10 March 1946. He came back on a troop carrier ship. It took seven days. It was awful. He...

James Gulotta got back home in January 1946. He wanted to pick up his studies so after about a two week rest he went...

As the Japanese aircraft came in, they [Annotator's Note: the Navy] would fire antiaircraft at them [Annotator's Note:...

Richard Greer was in the hospital when John Basilone was awarded the Medal of Honor. Greer was supposed to have been in...

The Japanese had snipers and other soldiers in the Philippines before the invasion [Annotator's Note: Fall of the...

They were pushing north, without much resistance, when Emmanual Damonte's radio reported, on 6 August [Annotator's Note...

Harvey Mittleman's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the heavy combat during the first few days on Okinawa [...

Earnest tried to get a lead on the cruiser so he could drop his torpedo [Annotators Note: after being hit during the...

When the grenade blew Quintana off the hill he does not remember if it knocked him unconscious but he does remember...

Robert L. Donovan did not want to be in the infantry. He was working at the Goodrich Company when he learned that the...

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