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Floyd Annas had always wanted to fly and enlisting in the Army Air Corps was a way to do it. He was sent to Miami Beach...

Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

Soon after returning home, Philip Mayer went to work and did not use the G.I. Bill for school. He became a truck driver...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

Floyd Annas graduated from advanced pilot training in Marfa, Texas [Annotator's Note: Marfa Army Airfield] on 23...

Arthur Lee was born in June 1921 in Abbeville, Louisiana, the second of five children. When he was two years old, the...

It took five and a half days for James Bollich to reach Camp O'Donnell [Annotator's Note: American instillation used as...

Soon after the war ended, Robert “Bob” Bowron was sent overseas to the Pacific. He boarded a ship with 4,000 troops....

James Born was born in 1922 in Denver, Colorado. His father was a railroad man so his family was living in Denver or...

Vernon wore a ring. Hershel Williams also wore a ring that was to remind him of his engagement to his fiancee Ruby....

In June 1942, after mortar training at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville,...

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