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Paul J. Frisco was born in May 1925 in Newark, New Jersey. He lived there until he was 15 years old and then moved to...

Byron Herbert Meader received very little military training when he was assigned to the 3462nd Ordnance Medium...

Walter Amoss reached the Imperial Hotel [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] where the headquarters for MacArthur [...

Edward Riedl felt that if they did not kill, they would be killed themselves. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period...

Joseph L. Harrison and his unit [Annotator's Note: the 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] went back to...

The boats were scattered around little islands, each with a pier, and Richard McEwen said the sailors ate their meals...

James Salerno cannot remember a lot of things that happened during the war. He does remember that there was a lot of...

It took Blanchard quite a while to get topside. There was a lot of smoke. The men had to move to get away from it all....

Sumner Whitten was admitted to the training program as a PFC. When it was discovered that he had a college education he...

After Orville Bethard went aboard ship [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] they went to Australia where...

Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] died 12 April [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The Thresher left port...

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