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Kenneth Theis reached Pearl Harbor and discovered that he was to be the Supply and Disbursement Officer on the USS...

Leo William Schmittgens trained with a M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as...

Kenneth Wieland went straight to Japan. He was assigned to the Aviation Engineer battalion [Annotator’s Note: Company A...

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

In early 1945, after completing missions in the Philippines, Richard R. Ruess' squadron [Annotator's Note: 4th...

William Winter assumed that after finishing OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] he would be sent to an...

Leon J. Neiman was born on 20 December 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Neiman and his siblings were all born in the same...

Bruno S. Rinas was able to complete the work he was given because he was being fed. He never saw the Japanese shoot...

Arnold A. Mirsky's father did not want him to join the Army Air Corps, so when he was accepted, Mirsky did not tell his...

When Ed Weber first got overseas, the war was not going well. In August 1942 when the Marines took Guadalcanal [...

Byron Herbert Meader was born in May 1919 in Ellsworth, Maine. His father worked as a laborer. During the Great...

When he was in high school, Paul Amrod played baseball as a catcher. In the service, he learned he was not major league...

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