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Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

Adolph William Amundson recalled that by the time he arrived at the island [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], the...

William Beaman thinks young people should be taught the history of World War 2, and believes it is important that there...

There was a small passageway that went all the way up the side of the ship to the front of the ship. It was lined with...

Benjamin Albert Glusing's men [Annotator's Note: in the 208th Military Police Company] saved themselves, other men,...

Moving off the beach at Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...

When they left Guam, Walter Jacobs suffered acute tonsillitis and had to go to the hospital. He was still there when...

After he had joined the Navy, it was a shock for Ben Ray Bost to leave home and get into uniform. Everything was free...

Howard Cain’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he flew over Hiroshima [Annotator’s Note: Hiroshima,...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

William Burkett recalls that the Army was segregated. Court martials were given based on rules dating from 1912. Then...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was a crewman on an LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP; also...

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