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Once word came that they were shipping out, Robert Leese flew with his crew as a passenger, stopping for fuel in Fiji,...

Giles Bacon has seen some of the movies made about Pearl Harbor in recent years. He thinks the most accurate is Tora!...

Dee Wayne White’s most memorable experience of his service was in the Merchant Marine when his ship took on several...

When the ceremony was over [Annotators Note: the Japanese surrender ceremony on 2 September 1945] the sky was filled...

Al Currier was able to learn to operate a tank [Annotator's Note: M3 Stuart light tank] when the Army sent 20 prewar...

On one patrol, Melvin C. Whitman shot a big rat off a fence. The shot scared a hiding Japanese soldier and one of...

Harold Hauberg [Annotator's Note: with Company D, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division] landed...

Burl Loving was born in January 1927 in Garden City, Kansas. In 1930, his family moved to San Francisco [Annotator’s...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when they dropped the atomic bomb [...

William Pierce had steak and eggs before boarding the Higgins Boat [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel...

Harold Buell was stationed on Guadalcanal where he found life in the field to be far more difficult than it was on his...

Cass Phillips was born in Pampa, Texas in April 1920. The doctor ran late to his delivery. The family moved off a farm...

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