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James William Grimes was assigned as a mess cook. He was very young [Annotator's Note: he was only 16 years old, but...

Carrel Reavis went from Virginia to basic training on a segregated train. When he went overseas, his ammunition company...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was on the...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was with the Asiatic Fleet [Annotator's Note: United States Asiatic Fleet, 1902 to 1942]....

Richard Baile's crew all thought alike. They were optimistic. None of them thought they would be shot down. Baile does...

After graduating from Officer Candidate School, Benjamin Albert Glusing became a second lieutenant and was given orders...

James Bollich was liberated by the Russians. Near the end of the war, the Japanese put out an order for all POWs [...

Hilar Moore was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands], which was the forward base for the...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

Francis John "Dick" Varone had not spoken much about his wartime experiences until he joined a group of other veterans...

Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

In 1944 as a senior in high school, Howard Cain avoided the draft by enlisting in the Army Air Force. He was gung-ho...

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