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The bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] was a...

When Donald F. Goyette first landed on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands], conditions were fairly rough...

Raymond Bailey was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Jobs at the time only paid about one dollar per day....

Stanley John Niec decided not to stay in the Navy after the war. He used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill...

Richard Lafleur went to Fort Riley [Annotator's Note: in Geary and Riley Counties, Kansas] for basic training after...

Bruce McCormick was in Richmond, Virginia. They had to see if they were qualified medical-wise [Annotator's Note: for...

After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], Merle Jerome "Jerry" Pettis was sent to Oregon. They did not get...

William Pierce was assigned to Weapons Company, 29th Regiment [Annotator's Note: Weapons Company, 29th Marine Regiment...

Archibald Higgins flew the four-engine B-24J [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24J Liberator heavy bomber]. It was a...

Wallace Spencer remembers the air groups and the pilots stayed away from the sailors. In one attack, all the colored...

When John Wicklund went for classification at Keesler Field [Annotator's Note: now Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi,...

Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Philippines] was a very beautiful city from the outside to Herbert Yudenfriend. There...

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