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John Edward Campbell’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was machine guns waking him up during Pearl Harbor [...

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

Robert Frederick Reed's squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Bombing Squadron 612 (VMB-612)] did training dropping...

Because the war in Europe had begun to die down and the need for additional pilots was decreasing by the time he...

Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great...

In May 1943, Paul Lawrence had technically been the Navy for one year. While at school, he waited tables. Lawrence was...

Kenneth Raymond Goodwin was the historian for the unit [Annotator's Note: Goodwin was a member of the I...

[Annotator's Note: Michael Mervosh served in the USMC in Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Russell Gackenbach had his Army Air Forces basic training in Florida. There were not enough uniforms for the recruits...

Their kickoff point was Finschhafen [Annotator's Note: Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea], and when the time came, Leo V....

There was an interpreter that could speak Japanese [Annotator's Note: in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. His plane crashed and he was...

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