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When they reached the field hospital, Edmund Durocher was put on a stretcher in the mortar platoon area. At the bottom...

Lieutenant Hagerty was promoted as a liaison officer for the 1st Marine Division and coordinated all of the regiments...

After liberation, Robert Lents was flown to Calcutta, India where he spent six weeks in a hospital. At the time he was...

Sterling Cale was on night duty at the shipyard dispensary in the Navy yard before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He had...

The older guys in the division [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Division] went home after Peleliu [Annotator's Note:...

Charles “Chuck” Wisher reached the Philippines [Annotator’s Note: as a crewman on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very...

Willis Mills was born in July 1926 and grew up in Holyoke, Colorado. It was a small farming community. His father...

Ben Steele was on a detail when he passed out on the side of the road, stricken with malaria. When he was finally able...

The night John Elliott arrived at the base in India, Tokyo Rose [Annotator's Note: nickname given by Allied servicemen...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings' submarine [Annotator's Note: the USS Gar (SS-206)] sunk some ships and engaged in some...

Richard Micklich was born in 1921 in Pueblo, Colorado. He spent the entirety of his childhood in Pueblo as part of a...

Davis Gordon Mayes heard about the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan through the radio receivers while he was...

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