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Rudolph C. Miller had no place to go and nowhere to live when he was 16. He tried to forge his certificate [Annotator's...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

They [Annotator's Note: Louis Zamperini, his pilot and their tail gunner] spent 47 days fighting off sharks, the...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

John H. Cole was born in January 1922 in Greene County, Arkansas, in a little community named Epsby [Annotator's Note:...

Adolfo V. Celaya heard men who seemed to know each other [Annotator’s Note: while in the Pacific Ocean after the...

Harold C. Cook felt he was only a part of the war when he served. They liked to make jokes about MacArthur [Annotator's...

Richard Baile was given a rigid physical which was going well until they gave him the color blind test again. This time...

The battle on Tarawa provided countless opportunities for combat cameramen like Norman Hatch to capture story telling...

Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...

The Army had not yet finished on Leyte because of bad weather, and Clem Thrift said that in the process of readying to...

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