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Norman Sterrie participated in the Battle of Coral Sea on 7 and 8 May. [Annotator's Note: 7 and 8 May 1942. Sterrie was...

Tenney did not believe the photo he saw of the Japanese soldier in Hollywood star and started laughing at it. The...

Carey Suratt left the Navy when his enlistment time was completed. In 1950, someone recommended Suratt join a new Army...

John Caudle was born in January 1926 in a farmhouse in Farmington [Annotator's Note: Farmington, North Carolina]. It...

Following the Battle of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg; 1 April to 22...

Howard Hart used all the fundamentals of the Los Banos raid [Annotator’s Note: The Raid on Los Baños in the Philippines...

Philip Schweitzer's first time away from home was his trip to basic training. Schweitzer thinks that at the time, the...

Robert G. Aldous and his crew were on Ie-Shima [Annotator's Note: Ie-Shima, Japan] at the time [Annotator's Note: of...

John DuBose had eight months of back pay when he departed the SS Frenchtown. He was concerned that he would be robbed...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. They were based out of Guam [...

Joseph Fisher remembers that they would have air raids with one or two planes at a time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

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