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[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Noah Lewis was drafted and inducted into the Navy in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was examined by military doctors and then...

Merle Jerome "Jerry" Pettis was on the Diligence [Annotator's Note: USS Diligence (WSC-135)] doing target practice with...

The picture of Leisey is on half a dozen things that he can think of. He has copies of the picture that go back to 1944...

One night, as Richard Jaccarino was sleeping under his poncho, the Japanese counterattack began. Just below their...

Edward F. Kent was born in November 1917 and grew up with one older sister. During the Great Depression [Annotator's...

John E. Johnson was born in Houston, Mississippi in December 1926, and lived there until he was six years old. During...

Austin H. Kiplinger experienced friendly fire in the Fall of 1944 [Annotator's Note: as a pilot with Composite...

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

Richard O'Hara and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion] saw very little action. When...

After graduating from radio school, Fred Bergeron, his older brother and their two friends, were all assigned to Task...

Salvatore Famularo went to Maui in the Hawaiian islands. He went into the 4th Marine Division [Annotator's Note:...

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