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The Battle of the Driniumor River ended in August of 1944 after the Japanese 18th Army had been completely decimated....

In April 1942, Dennis Allen Andrews was assigned as the Electrician's Mate 3rd Class to the USS Plunger (SS-179). On...

William Lutz was born in March 1920. He had three younger sisters, and two younger brothers who served in the Korean...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

Bill Toledo was sent to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] for boot camp. He was able to keep up with...

James Warren David remembered that the ship was full of people. The beds stacked nine bunks high. He recalled that he...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine captured by the Japanese at Guam, Mariana Islands] and his fellow...

Charles Wesley Borders was strafing a target in New Guinea and got hit. He nursed the airplane back to a temporary base...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker goes by Gene because he liked being greeted that way. He was born in June 1926 in Cushing,...

The prisoners had their own doctors they had to rely on. They had a Japanese doctor assigned to them but he was not 1...

Clyde Barber was a member of Patrol Squadron 11 (VP-11) which flew PBYs [Annotator’s Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina]...

Gerry Jones trained with the United States Marines, joining the Scout and Sniper Company at Camp Elliott [Annotator's...

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