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William Burkett had gotten there [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines then Japan] two weeks after the war was over. At...

Bailey has seen the Okinawan civilian jumping off of cliffs on television. It puzzles Bailey how two Okinawan women...

After returning from his leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], James W. Metcalf...

The day after the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941...

William "Bill" Arthur Pummill was born in Crocker, Missouri in July 1921. He was the eighth of 12 children in the...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: the battle of Okinawa, Japan], Harry McKnight was sent back to Guam [Annotator's Note...

Jack H. Bleuler served as a tail gunner on a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] with...

John Smith was out on a patrol miles into enemy territory when he was "relieved of all hazardous duty" and told he was...

Lloyd Dendy went to the Russell Islands [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. Pavuvu and Mbanika were coconut...

Norman Sterrie was born and raised in the small town of St. James, Minnesota. After high school graduation, he worked...

Thomas Kolesa was born in July 1924. He married at 18 and had three children. He is originally from Illinois and moved...

John "Jack" Raquepau went to get his harness fit and there were enlisted people living on that deck. They had about...

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