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Within a few miles of Aparri [Annotator's Note: Aparri, Philippines], Leo V. Strausbaugh met up with Major Connolly [...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Urban was at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea with Marine Fighting Squadron 212 (VMF-12).] It...

When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was glad to see the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS...

James Gaffney was born in 1924 in Texarkana, Texas. His family moved to several places in Texas. By the time he was six...

Theodore Marolda was born May 1923 in Winsted, Connecticut. He was born to a family of Italian immigrants and was the...

Reflecting on the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Lauren Bruner still gets emotional. He discusses a...

As they moved into Germany, Chris Carawan remembered one battle when a man was shot and fell across the top of his...

The train station manager said that the tracks were blown up and that passage to Yokahama would be impossible. Church...

There was a small passageway that went all the way up the side of the ship to the front of the ship. It was lined with...

Claude Bufford Shaw spent his entire wartime service in the Pacific, except for two short trips to the United States to...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. started his Navy service on 30 October 1942 at Columbia University [Annotator's Note: in...

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