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When the 12 ships in his squadron hit Diamondhead [Annotator's Note: the volcanic crater on Oahu, Hawaii], 6 went south...

Floyd James Reissig was hit by shrapnel from one of his own guns. While they were firing, the shrapnel hit him, causing...

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

Harold Ronson went to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to...

Archibald Higgins flew the four-engine B-24J [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24J Liberator heavy bomber]. It was a...

With all of the different kinds of huts that the Filipinos used they mainly used armor-piercing ammunition because...

Arthur Pendleton participated in a lot of covert operations. It was interesting work. Pendleton did not know the...

When his leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] was up, Salvador Guercia returned...

Edward Chinnis enlisted in the Navy on 11 November [Annotator's Note: 11 November 1942] in Raleigh, North Carolina then...

He was a young kid, and Aaron Baumgarten didn't know what to expect from the Russians; he just knew that they were...

Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...

Earl Williams used to play baseball and softball with his unit [Annotator's Note: 318th Port Company, 512th Port...

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