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Howard Cain sailed across the Pacific on a troop ship to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was assigned to...

The night John Elliott arrived at the base in India, Tokyo Rose [Annotator's Note: nickname given by Allied servicemen...

Jeremiah “Jerry” O’Keefe found training intense. After preflight school at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia...

Carl Trim says the tensest time on any trip at sea was when the captain would call everyone to general quarters [...

Richard Greer served as a machinegunner in Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. During...

Marvin A. Roslansky was born in Lakefield, Minnesota in November 1922. His family went through the Great Depression [...

Louis John Walter was first assigned to the SS James Buchanan [Annotator's Note: as a seaman in the Merchant Marine]....

George Joseph Bertucci felt the war improved him because he furthered his education afterwards. He had ambition to do...

After liberation, Robert Lents was flown to Calcutta, India where he spent six weeks in a hospital. At the time he was...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

James Newsom was assigned to the USS Cole (DD-155). The Cole left Norfolk for North Africa to land Rangers ashore in...

Bruno S. Rinas was able to complete the work he was given because he was being fed. He never saw the Japanese shoot...

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