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

Following the Japanese surrender, Jack Skaggs and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] made an American...

William Scott Stroud was born in June 1921 in Huntington, Arkansas but soon moved to Shady Point, Oklahoma where he...

Glen Kuskie had survived being a Japanese prisoner of war in the Philippines and he finally returned to the United...

During the Battle of Surigao Strait, Mark Brannon said the USS Hutchins (DD-746) had spent almost all of its ammunition...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Wesley Carroll what was going through his mind when his plane was going down.]...

Charles Struble was born in June 1924 in Benton, Illinois. He grew up there with one brother and one sister. He also...

Fulton Taylor returned to California and reported for further assignment. He received a 30 day leave en route to his...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

John Mikus, Jr. was never attacked from the air [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26...

Waldron was the commanding officer of Torpedo Squadron 8. He wanted things done his way and he wanted them done right....

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner in a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber in...

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