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The Japanese had steel, concrete, and coral bunkers all over the island [Annotators Note: Peleliu, September 1944]....

Robert Freligh served during the war because he felt it was his duty. He was also 20 years old at the time and thought...

Howard Hart saw how difficult it was to survive in the internment camps. In order to prevent the Japanese from taking...

[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Van Wart brought...

John H. Cole looked up and saw a bomb coming toward him [Annotator's Note: while on Okinawa, Japan]. It tumbled to the...

Burton "Burt" Johnson went to mortar school [Annotator's Note: M2 60mm mortar at Camp Elliot in San Diego, California...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Army’s 246th Ordnance Battalion] only encountered...

Charles Bishop stayed with the Piranha [Annotators Note: USS Piranha (SS-389)] to put her out of commission since he...

In Seattle the ship was opened to the pubic to try to convince them to keep working hard. Ari Phoutrides believes that...

Dee Wayne White’s most memorable experience of his service was in the Merchant Marine when his ship took on several...

Samuel Malta and his company [Annotator's Note: Anti-Tank Company, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division] in...

Matthew Cornelia's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when it ended. He served because he wanted to do...

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