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Lloyd Guillory joined the Air Force and was shipped to Sheppard Field in Texas. It was a hell hole for Guillory. There...

After the big battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Surigao Strait, 24 to 25 October 1944 in Surigao Strait, Philippines...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

James Richard O'Rorke was assigned to a Japanese baron and his beautiful home which was safe between Nagasaki [...

Charles Gubish was born in February 1919 in Allentown [Annotator's Note: Allentown, Pennsylvania]. He only completed...

K.D. Jones was Karr's pointer on the gun mount. Jones and Karr were able to get down and crawl out onto the deck. They...

The kamikazes were day and night [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, code-named Operation Iceberg, 1 April...

Edgar Marion Cole was born in Dallas, Texas in 1925. His parents were poor and he had to help the family financially...

Richard Lafleur [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty in Tokyo, Japan with 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division]...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

John Kelley took part in the raid on the Los Baños prison camp [Annotator's Note: Los Baños Internment Camp, Los Baños...

By the night of 5 August [Annotator’s Note: 1945], Paul J. Murphy had been in the sea for five nights and four days [...

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