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When Charles Weskey Borders got to New Guinea it had not been secured. The worst time was when he was based at Noemfoor...

On Guadalcanal, Ira Schilling and Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment faced some enemy air raids and naval...

Lester Hecht was heading to the invasion of Leyte. Halsey [Annotator's Note: US Navy Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey]...

Starting in December 1943, John Smith was on New Guinea preparing for combat in the Admiralty Islands. They landed on...

Before being shipped out as a replacement to the Pacific, Robert Leroy Shirkey was put on guard duty at the wharves in...

Lloyd Guillory made one flight against Rabaul. Rabaul was a Japanese airfield that was a very hot spot. It was bypassed...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The Thresher left port...

When Norman Kleiss returned he saw a carrier dead in the water. When he checked his YE-ZB he knew he still had a little...

Richard Keller received a Distinguished Service Cross but he does not think he deserved it. While recovering in the...

Claude Bufford Shaw's ship, the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke (DD-416)], was the lead in the six-ship column. When...

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

After a few days at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: near Hattiesburg, Mississippi], Ray Fitzgerald was sent to Saint...

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