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James Franklin Young was born in Toledo, Ohio in June 1921. He grew up with one older brother. His mother and father...

At Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Donald Draxler was apprehensive, but not afraid to...

Arnold A. Mirsky's father did not want him to join the Army Air Corps, so when he was accepted, Mirsky did not tell his...

Thatcher watched and was actually in a few of the B-25's that were practicing taking off from a short runway. It gave...

Louis Conter started 7 December 1941 aboard USS Arizona (BB-39) in Pearl Harbor. It was his practice to substitute for...

Alvin Barnes was temporarily assigned to the USS Indianapolis [Annotator's Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] for one day...

When Ed Weber first got overseas, the war was not going well. In August 1942 when the Marines took Guadalcanal [...

Lawrence Winnier did not stay in touch with anyone after the war. He has one grandson, three granddaughters, and two...

Paul Bannai interrogated Japanese soldiers and read Japanese documents during the war. When the war ended, Bannai was...

Before the war ended, Louis J. Armentaro's division [Annotator's Note: Armentaro was a member of Company F, 2nd...

At the end of January [Annotator's Note: January 1945], John Smith left Leyte, and was among the last to be issued new...

Robert G. Aldous was sometimes called "Bob". He was born in July 1925 in Ogden, Utah and grew up in Huntsville, Utah....

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