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James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

They were escorting 1 of the carriers and their flight crew. Their flight crew got caught out at night. They attempted...

On Pavuvu Island [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu Island, Solomon Islands], a personnel officer told Wilfred Hanson [Annotator...

Woods was a wiper in the engine room. There were 15 wipers aboard large ships. The wipers reported to the 1st Mate....

John Ream’s wife traveled from place to place her whole life. He could pick between the police or the military for a...

Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...

The scariest mission Charles Wesley Borders flew was just before the invasion of Luzon [Annotator's Note: Luzon,...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: after joining Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division on...

During Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine's early days in the internment camp [Annotator's Note: Santo Tomas Internment...

Philip Curran was in the Yellow Sea [Annotator's Note: sea located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula] for...

Walter Broll and his ship the Grace Abbott were in the harbor of Bari, Italy for two weeks before the attack took place...

Fighting in the Leyte Valley area lasted for two brutal months, and John Smith related the tale of the event that...

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