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Nicholas J. Zuras made his way through Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], and proceeded to join an...

Ray Eshelman did not take long to transition back to civilian life. He was looking forward to it. He did not miss the...

Near the end of the war, while the 11th Airborne [Annotator's Note: 11th Airborne Division] was flown to Okinawa [...

Returning to the United States, Vaughn Whitworth was offered a promotion to reenlist. He had had enough and went home....

Thomas Joseph Lemme went directly from Hawaii to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan with Company G, 2nd...

Howard Warren Stokes was born in 1926 in Lodi, California and was an only child. His father supported his family during...

His duty in the Aleutians lasted for about seven months, after which Thomas Long was sent to Coronado, California for...

Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

Jacklyn Lucas returned to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] in 1985. He has been back there three times and...

William Wayne says that Iwo Jima, Japan is shaped like a shoe. The part he was on was deep, thick, volcanic ash that...

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