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Garland Bath and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 483rd Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion] were attached to the 5th...

William Leibold wonders if the Tang [Annotator's Note: USS Tang (SS-306)] is still a tomb. The Tang was apparently...

Ray Fitzgerald started his combat flights [Annotator's Note: as a flight engineer aboard a Consolidated B-24 Liberator...

Clarence Becker was on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] when the war ended and the treaty was signed [...

Otis Kight was participating in flight operations when the Japanese attacked Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (...

Hugh Wingo was born in August 1918 in South Carolina. When he was 13 years old, they moved to North Carolina. He lived...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

When Marvin Martin heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

Ben Steele knew things were getting tense when he was sent overseas. When he got to Hawaii, he received orders to go to...

Martin Sherbecoe was born in 1920 in Stamford, Connecticut. His father was a skilled mechanic and from a very early age...

Dave Severance was scared that he was going to be court martialed. He ran back to company [Annotator's Note: Company E...

Alfred Raymond Mosher was born in December 1921 in Adrian, Missouri. He recalled the Great Depression and how lots of...

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