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Martin Carmody was on Guadalcanal for two or three days. The USS Enterprise (CV-6) had gone to the harbor at Espiritu...

Erik Johnsen, a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine says that New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1920s was active with all...

On 28 August [Annotator's Note: 28 August 1944], LST-1047 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank], the ship to which...

Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: Assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker] arrived in Pearl Harbor [...

Ernest Cowell took a train from Fort Mason, California [Annotator's Note: in San Francisco, California], to Fort Lewis...

Carrol Smith served in the Marine Corps in 1943 and 1944. He was deployed overseas in short order. The bombs were...

Howard Hart was born in Saint Louis in 1938. His father was a mining engineer in the Philippines prior to the war. His...

David Heath was stationed near Henderson Field [Annotator's Note: American airfield on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands...

Jack Leaming and other Allied prisoners of war, POWs, were forced to work by the Japanese after capture. Work details...

Kenneth A. Lafleur talks about his missions in the Philippines. His unit [Annotator's Note: 408th Bombardment Squadron...

Billy Grieves made 11 runs on the submarine Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)]. He left the Thresher...

In March 1944, at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, Charles Chatterton was assigned to the USS LCI(L)-334 [Annotator'...

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