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Glen Kuskie had just made it to shore after surviving a Hell ship that was sunk by the Americans. [Annotator's Note:...

James Roland Westbrook served in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines [Annotator's Note: 24th Marine Regiment], 4th...

Lester Hecht was having a beer on liberty in Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] when the man next to him,...

James "Jim" Tubach was born in April 1926 in Fall City, Nebraska. He grew up there on a dairy farm with ten brothers...

World War 2 made Alfred A. Lingo rethink about how to react to things. He learned to control his emotions in order to...

Walter Broll and his ship the Grace Abbott were in the harbor of Bari, Italy for two weeks before the attack took place...

John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: a member of the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit known as the Alamo Scouts]...

On the morning of the battle, Vejtasa was flying CAP. Jimmy Flately and Johnny Leppla were flying escort for the...

Starting in December 1943, John Smith was on New Guinea preparing for combat in the Admiralty Islands. They landed on...

Joseph Brannan returned to New York with the PT-305 and two other boats on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank...

Stewart Bass flew off the Lexington [Annotator's Note: USS Lexington (CV-16)] to the Japanese home islands over Tokyo...

Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...

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