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John Snyder's most memorable invasion of World War 2 was the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]....

Gene Alair was aboard the USS Astoria (CA-34) during the battle of Guadalcanal. Saipan was a big operation [Annotator’s...

Aside from sporadic sniper fire, Paul Amrod's prayers were answered and he had no really close calls. He attributes his...

William O’Brien was the second officer to the skipper. They had a cook, a quartermaster, three machinist mates, three...

Harlan Twible may have had nightmares after the war but it was nothing he could not handle. He left active duty the...

Robert M. Solomon was on deck when they got a submarine. He had to hold on, or he would have gone overboard when the...

[Annotator's Note: Emil Schoonejans served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Burrfish (SS-312) and was rated a...

During the day [Annotator's Note: during Bougainville campaign, part of the Solomon Islands Campaign at Bougainville,...

Feightner and a friend, Red Hall, attended the CPT [Annotator's Note: Civilian Pilot Training] class their school [...

Louis Zamperini thought that the mission [Annotator's Note: to bomb Wake Island] was a piece of cake because they were...

Frank Lloyd Pryor was born in Wilson, Oklahoma in January 1926. His father worked as a telegraph operator for a...

Robert L. Donovan landed in Leyte [Annotator’s Note: Leyte, the Philippines] on 20 October [Annotator’s Note: 20...

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