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Martin Banyas and his gunners did a good job as the last line of defense for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Santa Fe (...

Rowland Elliott Ball served as a navigator with the 60th Bombardment Squadron, 39th Bombardment Group, 20th Air Force...

About a day away from Hawaii, while John H. Cole was headed for Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall...

Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called...

After boot camp, Richard Nummer returned home for only one day before he returned to San Diego. Some trainees went AWOL...

In 1944, Kenneth A. Lafleur and the 22nd Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force were sent to an airfield in Finschhafen, New...

While off the coast of Washington state, there were large logs floating in the water. Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade tried...

Richard Miralles thought Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] was miserable. They had mud on...

Nick Cristiano says his crew were nice boys. He was anxious to go on his first mission [Annotator's Note: January 1945...

Chuck recalls being stripped naked with his hands locked behind his head. The Japanese would hit them with a giant...

Walter Bud Gafford [Annotator's Note: while serving aboard the USS Maryland (BB-46)] witnessed combat off Okinawa [...

Adolph Wilson fought through some of the worse jungles on Bougainville. It had everything imaginable. It rained every...

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