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John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: a member of the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit known as the Alamo Scouts]...

Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was told...

Wicker was not fast enough so his buddy would help him swim along in the water [Annotators Note: during the attack on...

James Patterson was called up on 23 February 1943. He was sent to boot camp with a bunch of other reservists. They...

Trinidad Ledesma feels that some of the kamikazes were fanatics and some were not. One had landed on Mindanao,...

Irwin Schneider was changed by the war completely. He had led a sheltered life prior to his service. He learned to be a...

Albert Simon was in the Philippines. They stayed in pup tents [Annotator's Note: small sleep tents often shared by two...

Lisle Neher took part in all five of the fire bomb mission. On those missions they would fly between 300 feet and 700...

Melvin Munch was born in 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in the portion of the city that was referred to...

George Joseph Sullivan spent six months in a hospital at home after he got back. The diet was one of the bad things. He...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

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