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Keith Kiefer feels the advent of nuclear weapons is a double-edged sword. Had they not been invented, there is very...

Milton Fernandez was born in September 1924 in Puerto Rico. He had eight siblings in his family. His father had a meat...

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in...

When the Japanese assaulted Wake Island the second time, Walter Bowsher was ordered to destroy his antiaircraft battery...

Clarence Robert Duff recalled the USS Benham (DD-796) was on picket duty the night the first atomic bomb was dropped....

Robert Freligh served during the war because he felt it was his duty. He was also 20 years old at the time and thought...

Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands] was taken on 1 November [Annotator's Note: 1...

Russell Gackenbach said that he would be part of the atomic bomb mission again if he was asked to do it. We were at war...

Wilbur Rogers said that everything he did [Annotator's Note: during his time in the US Navy] was before he was 21 years...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was assigned to the USS Patterson (DD-392) docked in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Paul Kerchum, a prisoner of the Japanese held in a camp in Cabanatuan [Annotator’s Note: Cabanatuan, the Philippines],...

Lenwood Steglich joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: enlisting in September 1942] because all his friends were going...

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