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As they neared Iwo Jima, James Salerno and the others were told that it would not take more than a week to take the...

Edward Riedl played baseball in the 1930s. His goal was to be a professional baseball player. New Orleans [Annotator's...

Thomas Tizzard was assigned to the USS Helena (CL-50) and sent to Nouméa, New Caledonia. A person had told him the...

David Eugene Turnbull believes that War World 2 has greatly influenced him because it opened his eyes to different...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

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

William Wayne ran into a corpsman who was sitting with a guy who was wounded in the stomach. Wayne told them they could...

William Earl Gast remembers the first time he changed into new clothes. He was staying in a house and slept in the...

Alexander Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi...

James Ramage started his career in the US Navy aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6). The non-aviators in the Navy at the...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

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