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Robert Savage's most memorable experience of the war was seeing the treaty signed [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

During one of his trips back to the United States Alex Vraciu was offered the opportunity to fly the Zero that had been...

Chester Hollingsworth's sub-chaser [Annotators' Note: USS SC-990] initially deployed to perform picket duty [Annotator'...

Ira Schilling and his outfit of assault engineers landed in the third wave during the invasion of Saipan. They landed...

Alfred Rodrigues identified Japanese aircraft by the large circles on their wings. It was Sunday and he had just sat...

Joseph H. Sasser Junior was riding in his friend's father's car when he heard over the car radio about the attack on...

Robert Hammond didn't like the military's practice of segregation. At the time he first encountered prejudice in South...

Returning to the Pacific on the USS Brown (DD-546), John Cassidy participated in the invasion of Okinawa. He was there...

Burton Johnson had been in the service for three years when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: on...

Harry Watson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in August 1926. His father was a glazier, his mother a housewife and he...

Jacklyn Lucas was just asking God to save him [Annotator's Note: after being wounded by the hand grenade he jumped on...

Harold G. Cowart trained on an M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1...

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