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Frank Savage was surprised to be relieving the 31st Infantry Division on Mindanao. That division was hit hard in the...

Wilbur Rogers' ship [Annotator's Note: USS Foote (DD-511)] and crew were preparing for the invasion of Japan, but the...

When he arrived in Japan, Bruno S. Rinas was loaded onto a train. He was given some food and Rinas enjoyed it. Rinas...

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Harold “Hal” Leith [Annotator’s Note: as a member of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), the forerunner of the...

James N. Rizzo enlisted in the Air Force and served for 22 months. After attending basic training at Keesler Field,...

Francis Bucher was on Adak [Annotator's Note: Adak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska] when the invasion of Kiska [...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] labored at a Japanese port with an American prisoner named...

Edward Bale went to Okinawa at the beginning of the assault as part of a deception force that did not land. The 2nd...

William Pierce remembers a buddy being wounded on Okinawa. It was the same buddy who had fired a shot erroneously and...

In late 1943, Charles A. Waller boarded a ship from San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] with 800 other...

After 16 months on Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa, Japan], Howard Cain was ordered to pack his things and prepare...

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