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Robert Brant wanted to be transferred to new duties on an escort ship going to the Philippines after spending 11 months...

Frederick Haack was flying off the coast of Taiwan [Annotator's Note: with the 68th Troop Carrier Squadron, 433rd Troop...

Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

William Lutz thought there would be more firing of weapons. He sat behind a machine gun. It was different from the...

On his second day on Iwo Jima, Japan, William Wayne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th...

Still in the Philippines, Clem Thrift's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] moved on to bombarding the...

While overseas, Robert Savage was aware of Japanese propaganda that was being broadcast. Savage says Tokyo Rose [...

Glenn Frazier was in the Philippines on 8 December 1941 when the war started. [Annotator's Note: The date difference is...

The most horrible of Edward Lee Allesandro's experiences were when men died while he was holding them. The ship also...

After the invasion of Guam [Annotator's Note: the Battle of Guam, 21 July to 10 August 1944; Guam, Mariana Islands],...

It took them 12 days to get back to California [Annotator's Note: returning from Japan after the war]. Emmett Kaylor...

Having survived the sinking of USS Arizona (BB-39) and the subsequent treatment for his burn injuries, Lauren Bruner...

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