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Sterling Cale received several different military decorations. He received multiple Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, and a...

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

Paul Lawrence was at the Harvard [Annotator's Note: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts] commencement speech...

Benjamin Clark Amsden was born in his mother's hometown of Springfield, Ohio in October 1922. He was there for three...

John Snyder's most memorable invasion of World War 2 was the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]....

Ray Felts got orders to go back to Port Hueneme, California where he was updating records, and noticed the Navy was...

Raymond Hayes and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Tortuga (LSD-26)] went to different places in China, delivering food...

The 2nd plane [Annotators Note: the 2nd kamikaze on 10 May 1945] that hit them hit the after engine room. He came in...

Louis Conter and the VP-11 [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 11] Catalinas [Annotator's Note: Consolidated PBY...

The weight of Donald Campbell's job was such that he rarely had off-duty time. He was responsible for the division's...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum was born in 1923 in Queens, New York [Annotator's Note: Queens is one of the five boroughs in New...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

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