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At Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Donald Draxler was apprehensive, but not afraid to...

Roy Stewart and his unit [Annotator's Note: in the 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division] advanced on Hill 382 [...

Archie Kelley admired Rickover [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Hyman G. Rickover; nicknamed Father of the Nuclear...

Richard Miralles was bombing the Philippines. A pilot had dropped two bombs into his bomb bay. The bombs blew up and...

Morris Semiatin volunteered for the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in 1944]. His brother was serving in the Army in...

The level of camaraderie began to diminish because they were dealing with different people. If they hadn't gotten...

It took James Muri 45 minutes or an hour to get to the Japanese fleet from Midway. After he left Midway, he was...

Thomas A. Tizzard Jr. was born in July 1924 in Echo, Louisiana. His family owned a farm and in 1938 they moved to New...

The USS Champion (AM-314) moved to the Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] area, and Elmer Spraker said it was...

By the time the second strike was launched, the first attack on Hiryu [Annotator's Note: Japanese aircraft carrier...

Francis John "Dick" Varone enlisted in the Marine Corps by himself. He waited until he received orders to report to...

Jack Leaming and other Allied prisoners of war, POWs, were forced to work by the Japanese after capture. Work details...

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