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Lloyd Dendy had been on a ship coming home when the war in Europe ended [Annotator's Note: 8 May 1945] and President...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled the constant mortar [Annotator's Note: M1 81mm mortar] firing during World War 2...

Leon Griffith was in the Philippines and was hunting Japanese who were on a mountain and firing artillery shells at...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

Bruno S. Rinas left Cabanatuan [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war camp near Cabanatuan City, Philippines] and embarked...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] was on the airstrip on the second day [...

On 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was attacked by the Japanese and the...

After pilot training, Homer Myers got his commission. He went to Tampa, Florida and started his B-17 [Annotator's Note...

Teddy [Annotator's Note: Lieutenant Theodore "Teddy" Keller, Gravois' future brother-in-law] and Gravois trained in New...

After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

The war soon came to an end, and the Navy did not know what to do with Dennis Allen Andrews except send him to school....

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