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William J. Twigger was training on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in September 1944]...

John Edward Love and hundreds of other POWs' [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] continued to mine [Annotator's Note:...

Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

As soon Philip Mayer got off the boat [Annotator's Note: in Melbourne, Australia], he was ordered to help extinguish a...

Barbara Butler wrote home frequently. She tried to explain to her family what she was going through and to reassure...

Robert S. Gibbs was assigned to fleet maneuvers at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aboard the USS...

Jack Skaggs and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] from Wake Island were marched about five miles to...

Mark Maynard witnessed a big celebration at the end of the war. Some men even drank torpedo fuel which contained...

After securing Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Solomon Islands], Haney Ambrose [Annotator's Note: with...

One night, Leon Griffith was on patrol. The sergeant said they should all lay down and go to sleep. The moon came up...

William Stewart was set to get discharged. He was considered surplus and could get out six months early. They fought...

The first flight Jack Glass went on was a search mission during the later stage of the Eastern Solomons campaign. The...

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