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William Wayne ran into a corpsman who was sitting with a guy who was wounded in the stomach. Wayne told them they could...

Clyde Nordstrom was born in June 1928 in Minneapolis [Annotator's Note: Minneapolis, Minnesota]. He had a good time...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] labored at a Japanese port with an American prisoner named...

Towards the end of the war, Jack Leaming's prisoner of war camp at Osaka [Annotator's Note: Osaka, Japan] had burned...

Warren J. Haslauer's lasting memory of World War 2 is how damned unnecessary the whole thing was. It was a colossal...

George Alaniz landed on the beach at Attu. [Annotator's Note: Alaniz was a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 32nd...

Edward Allesandro said that most people are surprised to hear that the Coast Guard was fighting in World War 2. The USS...

John Caudle did not have a lot of notice when he was called to active duty. He came home after work one Friday and had...

James Roy Colquitt was born in September 1926 in Needmore, Alabama. He was one of nine children. His family lived on a...

The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...

Harold “Hal” Leith arrived in Kunming, China by airplane. His aircraft was successful in reaching the destination, but...

As a pilot in VB-6 [Annotator's Note: Bombing Squadron 6 (VB-6)], Tony Schneider sailed aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6...

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