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Louis Conter left boot camp in San Diego, California with the knowledge that he was to be assigned to the battleship...

Joseph Brannan was stationed in Southern France after being based in Italy. In France, liberty was more available than...

The strike groups began hitting Guam and Saipan on the 12th [Annotator's Note: 12 June 1944] in preparation for the...

Landing on Iwo Jima was not much different to Michael Mervosh and his men than some of their other amphibious landings...

[Annotator’s Note: Richard R. Ruess was assigned as a navigator to the 1st Mapping Group] he received orders to report...

Melvin C. Whitman was surprised the Japanese did not fight back against the invasion [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Robert Frederick Reed's time in the service made him wonder why we were at war all the time, with World War 2, the...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt's most memorable experience was 7 April [Annotator's Note: 7 April 1945, during Battle of Okinawa...

Joseph Burrell could see all of the damage from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Ben Steele was told the war was over by a Japanese officer. At first, the Americans did not believe him, but American B...

William Lutz remembers they took a bulldozer and pushed the ground over the caves [Annotator’s Note: He is referring to...

When Kenneth Wieland arrived in Japan, he saw a bunch of American prisoners of war who were nothing but skin and bones...

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