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Mitchell Zimmer and the USS Snapper (SS-185) had multiple war patrols while using faulty torpedoes. Most of their...

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

Back in Hawaii, Richard Nummer participated in the preparations for the invasion of Japan. One of Nummer's fellow...

Philip Mayer had been in the Pacific for 30 months and was in the assault wave on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...

James N. Rizzo sailed overseas to the Pacific. He did not travel with his whole group [Annotator's Note: 553rd Air...

Edward Riedl remembers that Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] was different than Leyte [Annotator's Note:...

Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] was stationed at...

Earl Dean Browning holds up a book that he put together after he came home from the service [Annotator's Note: in...

Robert J. Ferris was born in January 1922 in Pittsford, New York. He had one older brother. His father worked as a...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow was born and grew up in Slidell, Louisiana in 1926. He had five brothers and a sister, he was...

For Archibald Higgins, being away from family and friends was not easy during his service. It took a tough toll on his...

James Anthony Saint Julien, Senior [Annotator's Note: deployed to the Philippines with the 766th Engineer Dump Truck...

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