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Frederick Jenkins went through the Panama Canal [Annotator's Note: Manmade canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific...

[Annotator's Note: Allen Tillery served in the USMC as a Japanese language specialist. For the campaign in the Marshall...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

Archibald Rackerby volunteered to become a Marine Raider. He was a corporal and was in charge of classifying incoming...

In November [Annotator's Note: November 1943], Donald Draxler was told he would be going into combat as a reserve...

James Carrington's war started on 7 December 1941. He was a prisoner for two years. On 3 February 1945 he moved into...

Thomas Goss was stationed overseas on Guadalcanal [Annotator’s Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] with his unit [...

Richard O'Hara and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion] saw very little action. When...

The engines on the plane that Thatcher was working with were in phenomenal shape due to the diligence they displayed in...

Salvador Perino had flown other aircraft, but the FM-2 Wildcat [Annotator's Note: Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighter aircraft...

Jack Houston and a buddy who had been cut by a bayonet stayed in their hole for a while. Houston had a buddy named Joe...

Charles Wesley Borders was strafing a target in New Guinea and got hit. He nursed the airplane back to a temporary base...

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