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Charles Nathan Lane considers himself extremely fortunate and thinks that he had a guardian angel with him when he was...

Alex Vraciu scored nine aerial victories during his first tour. His first kill was a Zero at Tarawa while flying with...

Lewis S. Evans wrote letters to his girlfriend back at school, and there was one time that he did not receive any for...

At Fort Snelling [Annotator's Note: near Bloomington, Minnesota], Donald Draxler and his father enlisted in the Army....

Theodore Marolda was born May 1923 in Winsted, Connecticut. He was born to a family of Italian immigrants and was the...

Samuel Hadjinian learned how to drink and smoke through his experience of World War 2. The war helped with his career...

Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

Adolph Wilson was born in Oakdale, Louisiana in 1922. Before the war, his father was in the coffee business. He...

Albert G. Sutcliffe and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division...

John Nicholas first experienced an aerial attack on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Gayety (AM-239)] a few months...

William Pierce felt it was his patriotic duty to fight during the Second World War. The Japanese had attacked the...

The first time William J. Twigger took fire from the Japanese was on 18 May [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of...

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