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James Gaffney’s assessment of the John Wayne World War II movie entitled "They Were Expendable" was that it was mostly...

Wim de Jonge was born in February 1920 in Rotterdam, Holland. His parents were both teachers. The family moved to the...

Harold Joslin was an intercept operator [Annotator's Note: communication code specialist who interpreted enemy coded...

Earl Angel returned to the United States in November 1945. His infant daughter had trouble sleeping at night until the...

Francis John "Dick" Varone had not spoken much about his wartime experiences until he joined a group of other veterans...

When the battle initially started, Frank Pomroy was positioned with a water-cooled machine gun [Annotator's note: .30...

[Annotator's Note: Keith Kiefer was assigned to a Radiological Cleanup detail on Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands while...

James Buckley was assigned to the USS LST-1013, a Landing Ship, Tank. It was as long as football field and 50 feet wide...

Louis Zamperini qualified for the 1936 Olympics and went to New York to compete with Don Lash [Annotator's Note: Donald...

News that the war had ended seemed to daze Randall Edwards and his fellow prisoners of war initially. Once they got...

James Allen was at Midway aboard the Sperry [Annotator's Note: USS Sperry (AS-12)] when the Wahoo [Annotator's Note:...

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