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Clyde Barnhart [Annotator's Note: a mechanic with the 883rd Bombardment Squadron, 500th Bombardment Group, 20th Air...

Fred L. Keller Jr. was born Algiers, Louisiana in January 1924. After he graduated high school, he got a job working at...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Wallace Spencer is honored that he was able to serve. He did his job and it was an honor to do it. His hat helped him...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

The following morning, Leon Williamson was sent to attack two heavy cruisers west of Midway Island [Annotator's Note:...

Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Philippines] was a very beautiful city from the outside to Herbert Yudenfriend. There...

Adolfo V. Celaya reached Iwo Jima [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]. The ship bombarded the...

By the night of 5 August [Annotator’s Note: 1945], Paul J. Murphy had been in the sea for five nights and four days [...

Benjamin Carson received ten days leave after the Makin Island raid. He was billeted at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in...

Salvatore Famularo does not know why he picked the Marine Corps. He thought he was an athletic kid. He had street sense...

James Richard O'Rorke worked in the factory [Annotator's Note: in a steel mill in Ōsaka, Japan as a prisoner of war]...

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