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Melvin C. Whitman was surprised the Japanese did not fight back against the invasion [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

After the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Rex...

Robert Freligh’s crewman Sam Plonski was from the Boston area, and Peter Sanchez from the Chicago area. He always flew...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] felt...

Norman Hatch joined the 2nd Division [Annotator's Note: 2nd Marine Division]. The 2nd Division did not have any...

Harold Buell attended Parsons College in Iowa [Annotator's Note: Fairfield, Iowa] on an athletic scholarship. He was an...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was still on the ship when the Marines on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]...

In Iceland, Keith Renstrom took and passed the test for corporal. When he got back to San Diego, he took the test for...

Bruno Rinas thought Camp O’Donnell [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war camp] was a hell hole. There was no water for...

Paul Sartori Jr. was in the Philippines when the atomic bombs were dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped...

As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

Raymond “Ray” Parrotta was born in Rochester, New York in May 1927. His father worked with a railroad company, and...

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