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After the big battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Surigao Strait, 24 to 25 October 1944 in Surigao Strait, Philippines...

Connick recalls the atmosphere of New Orleans during the war. He remembers men being replaced by stars in the window [...

Joseph LaNier was 15 years old and working in a nightclub when an incident happened in Columbus [Annotator’s Note:...

Rudolph C. Miller met his wife [Annotator's Note: Freda Miller, formerly Freda Feuer] on the street. It was snowing and...

On the day after V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], John Wicklund and a friend went to...

Joseph Townsend was being trained as a radioman and radio technician. They wanted him to become an aviation technician...

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

One of the guys that James Ramage was flying with looked back at one of the burning Japanese carriers and said, "Look...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade does not know how World War 2 changed him. After he left the service, he wanted to go back to...

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

Otis Kight was participating in flight operations when the Japanese attacked Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (...

Robert Kinzler was born in Newark, New Jersey, but his hometown was just outside the city in Irvington. He graduated...

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