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The one other combat action Carl Rieman experienced in the Philippines occurred in the Surigao Strait. The whole fleet...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was born in Ballinger, Texas in May 1925. In the 1920s, his parents owned a ranch. Because...

Robert S. Gibbs was shipped to Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines, aboard the USS Boston (CA-69)] in October...

Ricardo R. Rondinelli was sent to Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands and assigned to the 47th Bombardment Squadron,...

When Japan surrendered, John Cassidy was in the Pacific off Wake Island. He thought the atomic bomb was kind of awesome...

After the conclusion of World War 2, William Riggs' only thought upon arriving home was to seek out a job away from the...

After John Edward Love [Annotator's Note: a former prisoner of war] recovered and was released from the hospital, he...

Lionel Lopez did not lose any POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. They got paid for their work on the...

Mahlen Arledge grew up as a result of World War 2. He understood what life meant. When he went into the service, he...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

[Annotator's Note: Norman Hatch served as a combat cameraman with the 5th Marine Division on Iwo Jima.] On Iwo Jima,...

Clarence Robert Duff recalled the USS Benham (DD-796) was on picket duty the night the first atomic bomb was dropped....

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