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Thomas J. Bostick's most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting off the ship and going right into combat. When...

When the Japanese ceased the bombing [Annotator's Note: Fall of the Philippines, invasion by the Empire of Japan, 8...

Howard Robert Charles [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] and the other prisoners soon found their clothes were...

Charles Nathan Lane considers himself extremely fortunate and thinks that he had a guardian angel with him when he was...

Alexander Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group...

Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1922. His father was a civil service employee....

Theodore Marolda was born May 1923 in Winsted, Connecticut. He was born to a family of Italian immigrants and was the...

Mitchell Zimmer liked the idea of sailing on a smaller boat like a submarine. He was trained in New London, Connecticut...

Vernon Micheel met his future wife in June 1943 in Wildwood, New Jersey. They were married in October 1946. Micheel...

The Yorktown [Annotators Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] ended up getting the worst of it in the form of aerial and...

One morning, Richard Thelen saw a plane fly over him and he knew that he was about to be rescued [Annotator's Note: USS...

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