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Willard Ashford’s most memorable experience of the was was driving an 18-wheeler to Admiral Nimitz’s [Annotator's Note...

Tony Schneider begins by discussing that the crew aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) wanted to "get back" at the Japanese...

After John Votrobeck graduated, he took a train through Omaha, [Annotator's Note: Omaha, Nebraska] and on 20 April [...

A submarine was the first nuclear-powered vessel and the Nautilus' [Annotator's Note: USS Nautilus (SSN-571] reactor...

Yellin recalls that the Japanese were in the caves. One person described that the Japanese were not on Iwo Jima, but...

Robert Templet was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1920. At the age of five years old, his family moved to...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Church was able to keep his wits about him during his prisoner experience because every man he was with was in the same...

Richard Miralles left the squadron and went aboard the ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75)] as a radioman...

William Pierce returned to San Francisco in March 1946. He was discharged in April 1946. He was shipped back to New...

In 1944, Kenneth A. Lafleur and the 22nd Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force were sent to an airfield in Finschhafen, New...

When Woods would go into Times Square young servicemen would give them trouble about why they weren't in the service....

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