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Olaf Rose became acquainted with, and courted, his future wife by mail from the Pacific. When he came home on a 30 day...

They ended up at Camp Custer. DeMers had been getting promoted this entire time. He made 1st Sergeant by 1940. They...

Glenn Frazier was in the Philippines on 8 December 1941 when the war started. [Annotator's Note: The date difference is...

Walter Atwood took a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] home. One night, the...

All four Japanese carriers were sunk during the Battle of Midway. The Japanese plan had been to draw the American...

Trinidad Ledesma did not go by the name Trinidad while on duty overseas. He found out Trinidad meant gay people and...

William Hall reached Sand Island in the Midway Atoll with his personal equipment. Midway was a stopping point for Pan-...

Robert Marich was born in January 1923 in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 16, his family moved to Beloit, Wisconsin. A...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

Jack Werner felt that he was at home when he came to the United States. It seemed that this is where he belonged. It...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: was an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] and...

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