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On 11 July 1944, George Colburn and two others went into the Federal building in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston,...

James Weller picked the Army for enlistment because his father had served in World War I in a submarine. The submarine...

[Annotator's Note: Archibald Rackerby was wounded by friendly fire while training on Guadalcanal on 9 March 1944.]...

Alfred Rodrigues reported aboard the Washington [Annotator's Note: USS Washington (BB-56)] as a five inch [Annotator's...

Martin Jacobson arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii soon after the Marshall Islands Campaign in 1944. He underwent more...

J. W. Childs was at the Battle of Midway, but remembers nothing in particular about the event. The USS Worden (DD-352)...

Before the war, Sterling Mace played baseball and had aspirations to pitch. He pitched for the Philip Morris cigarette...

In February 1945, Salvador Guercia's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Sandoval (APA-194)] transported Marines to Saipan [...

James Smith was known as Horse [Annotators Note: also as Horse Collar] during his time in the Marine Corps. He earned...

When activity became concentrated at Guadalcanal, they [Annotator's Note: James Morehead and the rest of the 8th...

[Annotator's Note: Ralph Weymouth served in the Navy as a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 3 (VS-3) flying from...

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

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