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Before the Marines landed on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) bombarded the...

[Annotator's Note: Yukio Kawamoto served in the Army as a Japanese interpreter with the 37th Infantry Division in the...

While in captivity, Walter Bowsher received few Red Cross packages, and, of those he received, some of them were...

After his Navy training, George Hamilton was assigned to the USS King (DD-242) and spent 16 months aboard her in the...

Ray Dennis Irby stayed overseas from 1943 until December 1945. He was in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] when...

Vernon Henry Moret flew into Japan with his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment,...

When the battle initially started, Frank Pomroy was positioned with a water-cooled machine gun [Annotator's note: .30...

James Muri landed on Midway around 29 May [Annotator's Note: 29 May 1942]. At that moment he did not know what the geo...

"PB" Snyder was born in Vernon, Texas in June 1927. His father was an independent drilling contractor and moved the...

Frederick Haack and about nine others were put in a big, steel cylinder [Annotator's Note: during high-altitude, pilot...

Howard Robert Charles was born in Picher, Oklahoma. With environmental issues there, the mines were closed. His father...

In 1944, Leander Bubrig enlisted in the Army and was sent to Camp Beauregard, Louisiana for induction. His hair was cut...

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