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Nevin Sledge was born in Alva, Mississippi in February 1921. His father was a farmer. They moved to the Mississippi...

Fulton "Jack" Taylor was born in 1925 in Corbin, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: cannot verify town name]. The family...

Edward Bale spent the first night on Tarawa sleeping next to a disabled LVT [Annotator's Note: Landing Vehicle, Tracked...

After Japan captured the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Fall of the Philippines, invasion by the Empire of Japan, 8...

Clayton Hall and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] had...

Vernon Henry Moret and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry...

Harold Buell flew his first combat mission at Midway on anti-submarine reconnaissance. He had only one prior experience...

Byron Herbert Meader received very little military training when he was assigned to the 3462nd Ordnance Medium...

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

In 1940, Alfred A. Lingo was activated into the Army for one year at Hamilton Field [Annotator's Note: now Hamilton Air...

Susan Magnuson Devoe remembers being liberated [Annotator's Note: from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...

Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...

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