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James Wilson recuperated and was taken to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Guadalcanal...

Thomas Lusco Sr. was born in Rita, Louisiana. He was raised with 14 kids in his family. He went to a Catholic school...

The Battle of the Driniumor River ended in August of 1944 after the Japanese 18th Army had been completely decimated....

Frank Pantuso was born in November 1925 in San Antonio, Texas. He says his mother and father worked hard to support the...

When Ray Gene Gresham got out of the service, he didn't think the G.I. Bill could help him enough to afford college...

Donald Herbert Shown was with a doctor, chaplain and Marine captain who swam around trying to take care of the wounded...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Lowe was with the 1st Defense Battalion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.] They were on a guard duty...

Orville Carroll's most memorable experience of World War 2 was going over to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana...

In the fall of 1943, When Frank M. Heuer Sr.’s course at Hall-Scott Motor Car Company [Annotator’s Note: in Berkeley,...

Paris Tognoli came into Empress Augusta Bay [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Papau New Guinea, 28 December 1943] and...

Giles Bacon thinks it is very important that The National World War II Museum exists. History is not being taught well...

Harold Ward remembers that it was quiet after they secured from general quarters. Around three in the afternoon they...

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