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James Richard O'Rorke trained in Fort Monmouth near Redback, New Jersey. All the trainees had previously been shipped...

As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

The first treatment Carroll Harris received was heat lamps on his legs. However, his legs and feet began blistering, so...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine captured by the Japanese at Guam, Mariana Islands] and his fellow...

After Baptiste left the Solomons he was sent to new construction. He was sent to the hospital because he lost his...

Sumner Whitten noticed heavily armed Marines around the runway. At about that time they were warned to be prepared for...

On 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was attacked by the Japanese and the...

Jack H. Bleuler served as a tail gunner on a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] with...

After pilot training, Homer Myers got his commission. He went to Tampa, Florida and started his B-17 [Annotator's Note...

Samuel Goss sailed [Annotator's Note: aboard USS Bladen (APA-63)] from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Paul Sparacino found out about atomic veterans [Annotator's Note: atomic veteran; any veteran who, as part of his or...

The boats were scattered around little islands, each with a pier, and Richard McEwen said the sailors ate their meals...

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