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Jack Skaggs heard about Pearl Harbor on Monday morning, 8 December 1941. [Annotator's Note: Wake Island is west of, and...

Theodore Theodore's most memorable event of the war was being jumped by fighters while leaving Balikpapan [Annotator's...

Benjamin Albert Glusing was born in February 1916. He was born in southeastern Kansas on a farm near the town of...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] felt...

On the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Louis R. Lepore did not take part in the practice invasions at Maui [Annotator's Note: Maui, Hawaii] before going to...

Donald Stratton went to Corona, California towards the end of 1942. He was there for a couple months before he was...

Ira Schilling and his outfit of assault engineers landed in the third wave during the invasion of Saipan. They landed...

From late November of 1943 until Guam in 1944 Hershel Williams was engaged in a rigorous training regimen. When...

Edward Bale went to Okinawa at the beginning of the assault as part of a deception force that did not land. The 2nd...

Alfred Dearman had never seen a tv [Annotator's Note: television] and kept reading about them. Another of his buddy and...

Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...

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