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The following morning, Leon Williamson was sent to attack two heavy cruisers west of Midway Island [Annotator's Note:...

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

Malcolm Ernest has traveled all over the world. He enjoyed Puerto Rico more than anything else. They have great bass...

Morton William Werner returned to San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California] and then took a train to...

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

After the landings at Cape Gloucester [Annotator's Note: Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea], Mark Brannon...

Thomas Paris learned about events by radio. He would write letters home. They had C-47s [Annotator’s Note: The Douglas...

When assigned to the USS Helena (CL-50) in March 1942, Thomas Tizzard was given leave in Sydney, Australia for R...

Stanley Fagerstrom was born in June 1923 in Schaffer, North Dakota. He had a sister who was eight years older than him...

[Annotator's Note: James McEnery served in the USMC as a rifleman in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

One of Karr's uncles was an original member of the American Legion when it was founded in Paris in World War I. Another...

Rollins Rosenzweig continued to fly missions over Okinawa after the attack on the Japanese battleship Yamato. Missions...

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