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Peter "Pete" Behr's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the landing at Leyte [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Bailey served in the Navy as a 20mm antiaircraft gunner aboard the aircraft carrier USS...

Roger Shaw returned to the SS George Gayle after his leave in New Orleans, Louisiana. The was his original ship. It...

Brian Thacker thought it was unpleasant to receive the Medal of Honor [Annotator's Note: the Medal of Honor is the...

Alexander Vraciu scored nine aerial victories during his first tour. His first kill was a Zero [Annotators Note:...

Jack Skaggs realized that he had been on a long journey in his life. That journey has brought him pride and enjoyment....

Harold Long was born in January 1926 in Lawrence, Kansas. He grew up in southern Illinois during the Great Depression...

Gerard V. Radice grew up in the Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] area. His father was an immigrant from...

James H. "Jim" Pritchard was born in August 1925 in Ottawa, Kansas. He grew up there. He had three sisters and two...

Socrates Dendrinelis would always get the worst details. He was in a boxing match with some of the other guys on the...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was on lookout duty with hi-powered binoculars when the first invasion attempt on Wake Island...

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

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