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James Bollich's younger brother never made it overseas. One brother died in a fighter pilot accident and the other died...

Clint Quirk was not assigned to a ship. [Annotator’s Note: Quirk was in the Merchant Marines]. He went into the union...

Ruffin Walker Dawson [Annotator's Note: with the 51st Defense Battalion] found out he was going overseas in February...

Morton William Werner returned to San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California] and then took a train to...

Thomas Paris was born in Nashville, Tennessee in May 1926. He had one sister. His father was a salesman for Remington....

Socrates Dendrinelis was assigned to the USS Carina (AK-74). They headed to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Air Corps training for Lincoln Piazzo consisted of primary, basic and advanced programs, and was conducted in three...

After Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Tarawa, 20 to 23 November 1943 at Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands], Henry James...

John Reeder remained on active duty, and was sent to the Naval Air Station at Mojave, California for a month, then...

They did not know the exact cause of his death since he was in halfway decent shape but initially they were told his...

When the ceremony was over [Annotators Note: the Japanese surrender ceremony on 2 September 1945] the sky was filled...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. drove his truck to multiple locations on Wake Island in support of the defenders. The huge...

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