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Richard Witaker distrusted both civilians and soldiers on the Japanese held island of Okinawa. He once had to remove a...

Otis Kight and others volunteered for the salvage party to return to Yorktown [Annotator's Note: the USS Yorktown (CV-5...

Rogers was born in Saltville, Virginia on 1 January 1915.He graduated from high school in 1932 during the middle of the...

Shortly after Frederick Ellis reached Japan and the point system was in place for sending them home. The points got...

Once they [Annotators Note: Richard Cole, James Doolittle, and the crewmen aboard their B-25 which had just taken part...

Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Sumner Whitten is proud to have survived the Battle of Midway. A few years ago he was contacted about Battle of Midway...

Between graduating from college and beginning the program at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland,...

After leaving the Air Force, Hersey Goodwin went back to get his master's degree. He returned to his hometown [...

When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

Peter "Pete" Behr [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division]...

Elmer Koenig enlisted on 7 May 1943. He graduated from high school in June 1943. His parents expected him to join. In...

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