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During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

In August 1945, after completing an advanced infantry training course at Fort Rucker, Alabama, Marvin Martin was sent...

[Annotator's Note: William Cart was a student at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston,...

Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...

William Wayne has two bad memories of Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. The first was going across open land and...

Henry James Bird served with F Company, 2nd Battalion, 18th Regiment, 2nd Marine Division [Annotator's Note: Company F...

After liberation [Annotator's Note: 3 February 1945 at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment Camp,...

It was decided that the Laffey was going to head to Washington, DC and be tied up next to the Naval Gun Factory. The...

After being discharged, Robert Cahoon returned to Pickens, Mississippi. He did not have a difficult time readjusting to...

Emil Schoonejans volunteered for submarine duty on 11 February 1943 and was called up a week later. He did not have a...

Emmanuel Nazarro Damonte [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling on middle name] was born in San Francisco [Annotator's...

Eugene Tarrant has certain memories from the war that have stuck with him to this day. One night off of Guadalcanal,...

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